Common Green Charaxes cheerful art This is a local found

This is a local found cicada (Atlanta

The background photo was taken by MyMy Butterfly at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah

and appears as a stray as far north as Texas in the U

The background photograph was taken by MyMy Butterfly in the Inman Park neighborhood of Atlanta

Common Green Charaxes cheerful art This is a local foundCharaxes eupale can be found in the lowland evergreen forests of Senegal, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Angola, Zambia, Uganda, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, & Malawi. Their green coloring is due to pigmentation, as opposed to the color being produced structurally (scales). This specimen is encased in a 3 x 4 frame.