Charaxes hadrianus

[daveuk]

Male shown upper & underside. Data is for Mbale, Central African Republic, December 2005

[papillon]

Daveuk,

I believe the locality of your charaxes hadrianus is wrong.
Mbale is a town in eastern Uganda, near the Kenya border and hadrianus does not fly there.
Most probably your specimen comes from Mbata, which is a famous collecting site in the south-west of the Central African Republic.

[daveuk]

Daveuk,

I believe the locality of your charaxes hadrianus is wrong.
Mbale is a town in eastern Uganda, near the Kenya border and hadrianus does not fly there.
Most probably your specimen comes from Mbata, which is a famous collecting site in the south-west of the Central African Republic.

Thank You. I must have misread the data label.
Actually checked after writing the above. I think the dealer( in this case the late Chuck Ianni) wrote out the data incorrectly.

[Cabintom]

There is an Mbalé in C.A.R., to the west of Bangui: https://mapcarta.com/17115180

[Borearctia]

The site of Mbalé in the Central African Republic is not unknown to me. It is located near Bogboro (Mbaiki).
The locality is occasionally visited by collectors.

Mbalé is a common name for localities in Central African countries. In Cameroon, there are at least 3 localities with the name Mbalé, one of them near the Central African border.

[mcheki]

Here are two photographs of a male and a female from Cameroon showing upper and lower sides. The male (top) is labelled Kribi, Cameroon, May 1996. and the female (below) is labelled Ebogo, Cameroon, March 2007.

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