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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.
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Vinony's link graph records 10 inbound references to Euxanthe, and connects out to Animalia, insect and arthropod.
It is catalogued under topics including Butterflies of Africa, Charaxinae and Nymphalidae genera.
Vinony links it to 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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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