Kihansi Charaxes

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name = Charaxes Mtui


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Charaxinae
genus = "Charaxes"
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Kihansi Charaxes ("Charaxes khasianus") is a new species of butterfly discovered in (the proposed) Kihansi Conservation Area in Tanzania. Devolent Mtui, a researcher scientist working for Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute made the discovery. The Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology and some researchers at the African Butterfly Research Institute based in Nairobi recognize the discovery.

The caterpillars of this species feed on a plant growth - "diospyros natalensis", that grows at Kihansi Gorge and along the river above Kihansi Falls.

ee also

*Kihansi Spray Toad
*Tanzania Wildlife Research Institute

References

* [http://www.ippmedia.com/ The Guardian Newspaper] Saturday, March 3, 2007