Charaxes elwesi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It was described by James John Joicey and George Talbot in 1922. It is endemic to Sumbawa and Sumba in the Indomalayan realm (near the Wallace Line).[2]
| Charaxes elwesi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Charaxes |
| Species: | C. elwesi
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| Binomial name | |
| Charaxes elwesi | |
Subspecies
edit- Charaxes elwesi elwesi (Sumbawa)
- Charaxes elwesi pugnax Tsukada & Nishiyama, 1979 (Sumba)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Charaxes elwesi.
- Charaxes Ochsenheimer, 1816 at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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