Charaxes protoclea is a subspecies of .common forest charaxes.
   They can be found ound in tropical forest terrain,  spending most of their time flying in the upper canopy of the forest.
   The males are quite territorial so they make regular flights to search for potantial females to mate with, and to patrol for invading males.

   After mating the female deposits her eggs on the host plants in the canopy.

   Because there are multiple generations each year it is possible to find adults in flight almost all year round.

   They have two broods, from October to November and from February to June.

   The male and female have distinctly different appearances. The larger female has a narrow red border, orange spots in the forewing and large white patches in fore and hindwings on the dorsal side.. The ventral side is paler purplish with a distinct yellowish bar.

​   * As members of the Brush Footed (Nymphalidae) family, they use their pair of shorter front legs for food tasting, and their two pairs of longer rear legs for propulsion.