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Euxanthe
Sign in to saveEuxanthe is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Charaxinae. There are six species all found in Afrotropical forests. The popular name is empresses or forest queens.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 25
- With media
- 14
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- UMNH, YPM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, OH (CLEV), SAM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Congo, The Democratic Republic Of The, Kenya, Angola, Ghana, Uganda, Togo, Nigeria
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Euxanthe is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Charaxinae. There are six species all found in Afrotropical forests. The popular name is empresses or forest queens.
==Species== The six species are: Subgenus Euxanthe Hübner, [1819] / eurinome-group Euxanthe crossleyi (Ward, 1871) Euxanthe eurinome (Cramer, [1775]) Euxanthe madagascariensis (Lucas, 1843) Euxanthe wakefieldi (Ward, 1873) Subgenus Hypomelaena Aurivillius, [1898] / tiberius-group Euxanthe tiberius Grose-Smith, 1889 Euxanthe trajanus (Ward, 1871)
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