#3019 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Two-tailed Pasha
🇳🇱 Pasja ·Charaxes jasius
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © heftos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Claude Dopagne · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Michael Sveikutis · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 8. © Julia Moning · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © pmarques · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Marco Bertolini · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Charaxes jasius , the two-tailed pasha or foxy emperor , is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is the only European species of the genus Charaxes .
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 8,020 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1767 (259 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Two-tailed Pasha
- Nederlands
- Pasja
- scientific name
- Charaxes jasius
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 7,148
- sightings worldwide
- 8,020
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1767
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 123912, Wikidata Q1320946, GBIF 1896957, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.