Charaxes chanleri is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in north-central and northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. The habitat consists of arid Acacia savanna.
Original description In 1895, William Jacob Holland wrote:
Vingerhoedt provides images
Taxonomy Considered conspecific with Charaxes kirki kirkii by Turlin and Vingerhoedt.
Etymology It was named for William A. Chanler, one of the collectors.Orator Fuller Cook, East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1895.
Realm Afrotropical realm
References
External links African Butterfly Database Range map via search