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Charaxes
The rajah and pasha butterflies, also known as emperors in Africa and Australia, (genus Charaxes) make up the huge type genus of the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Charaxinae, or leafwing butterflies. They belong to the tribe Charaxini, which also includes the nawab butterflies (Polyura). Charaxes are tropical Old World butterflies, with by far the highest diversity in sub-Saharan Africa, a smaller number from South Asia to Melanesia and Australia, and a single species (C. jasius) in Europe....
60 branches of this group, most-observed first
Two-tailed Pasha
speciesCharaxes jasius
Tawny Rajah
speciesCharaxes bernardus
White-barred Emperor
speciesCharaxes brutus
White Pearl Emperor
speciesCharaxes varanes
Green-veined Emperor
speciesCharaxes candiope
Painted Emperor
speciesCharaxes saturnus
Blue-spotted Charaxes
speciesCharaxes cithaeron
Giant Charaxes
speciesCharaxes castor
Yellow Rajah
speciesCharaxes marmax
Protea Emperor
speciesCharaxes pelias
Cream-bordered Charaxes
speciesCharaxes epijasius
Flame-bordered Emperor
speciesCharaxes protoclea
Common Blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes tiridates
Forest-king Charaxes
speciesCharaxes xiphares
Large Blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes bohemani
Western Red Charaxes
speciesCharaxes cynthia
Silver-barred Charaxes
speciesCharaxes druceanus
Scarce Tawny Rajah
speciesCharaxes aristogiton
Bamboo Charaxes
speciesCharaxes boueti
Violet-washed Charaxes
speciesCharaxes lucretius
Black-bordered Charaxes
speciesCharaxes pollux
Lesser Blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes numenes
Forest Pearl Charaxes
speciesCharaxes fulvescens
Variegated Rajah
speciesCharaxes kahruba
Wild-bamboo Charaxes
speciesCharaxes macclounii
Madagascar Green-veined Charaxes
speciesCharaxes antamboulou
Cream-banded Charaxes
speciesCharaxes hansali
Charaxes andara
speciesCharaxes andara
White-banded Rajah
speciesCharaxes borneensis
Western Blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes smaragdalis
Stellar King
speciesCharaxes ameliae
Pointed Pearl Emperor
speciesCharaxes acuminatus
Double Eye-spotted Rajah
speciesCharaxes harmodius
Violet-spotted Charaxes
speciesCharaxes violetta
Eudoxus Charaxes
speciesCharaxes eudoxus
Euphaedra Charaxes
speciesCharaxes fournierae
Charaxes saperanus
speciesCharaxes saperanus
Charaxes durnfordi
speciesCharaxes durnfordi
Two-spot Blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes bipunctatus
Blue Patch Charaxes
speciesCharaxes lactetinctus
Blood-line Emperor
speciesCharaxes hadrianus
Silver-striped Charaxes
speciesCharaxes lasti
Charaxes velox
speciesCharaxes velox
Charaxes junius
speciesCharaxes junius
Ansorge’s Charaxes
speciesCharaxes ansorgei
St Leger’s Charaxes
speciesCharaxes legeri
Charaxes thomasius
speciesCharaxes thomasius
Noble White Charaxes
speciesCharaxes nobilis
Imperial Blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes imperialis
Powder-blue Charaxes
speciesCharaxes pythodoris
Charaxes mixtus
speciesCharaxes mixtus
Charaxes analava
speciesCharaxes analava
Charaxes phoebus
speciesCharaxes phoebus
Montane Bamboo Emperor
speciesCharaxes alticola
Charaxes monteiri
speciesCharaxes monteiri
Charaxes jolybouyeri
speciesCharaxes jolybouyeri
Charaxes biokoensis
speciesCharaxes biokoensis
Charaxes richelmanni
speciesCharaxes richelmanni
Charaxes balfouri
speciesCharaxes balfouri
Charaxes andranodorus
speciesCharaxes andranodorus
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 973189.