The forewings are black. The margin is ridged. There is a chain of big white spots. In back the white spots fusion to a broad white band.
The underside is very colourful. Some areas are fawn, grey and auburn. There is a white band crossing the wing. There are many black spots, which have a white border.

The hind wings are black and have two tails. The margin is ridged. There is a broad white band. In back there are some little blue spots.
The underside is very colourful. Some areas are fawn, grey and auburn. The white band from upside is also there. There are many black spots, which have a white border.

The body is brown, but the upside is black.

Sex differences: 

Blighia unifugata, Ekebergia capensis , Entandrophagma delevoi, Trichelia dregeana

The first description of this butterfly was in 1779 by Cramer. There are four subspecies.

• Charaxes brutus alcyone   [Stoneham, 1943]
• Charaxes brutus angustus   [Rothschild, 1900]
• Charaxes brutus natalensis   [Staudinger & Schatz, 1886]
• Charaxes brutus roberti   [Turlin, 1987]
  
  
  

• CITES: (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora):
  
  -no entry- (as at 23.06.2005)
  
  
• EU regulation on trading with species of wild Fauna and Flora
  
  -no entry- (as at 19.08.2005)
  
  
• IUCN Red List of threatened species:
  
  -no entry- (as at 2004)  (see: www.redlist.org/)
  
  
  

Charaxes andara [Ward, 1873] 

Charaxes jasius [Linnaeus 1767] (Two-tailed Pasha, Erdbeerbaumfalter, La Nymphale de l´Arbousier) 

Charaxes brutus Cramer 1779

 White Barred Charaxes

• Kingdom:    ANIMALIA
• Phylum:    ARTHROPODA
• Class:    INSECTA
• Order:    LEPIDOPTERA
• Suborder:    DITRYSIA
• Superfamily:    PAPILIONOIDEA
• Family:    NYMPHALIDAE
• Subfamilie:    CHARAXINAE
• Tribe:    CHARAXINI
• Genus:    CHARAXES
• Specific name:    BRUTUS

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