Cyrestis camillus
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Cyrestis camillus | |
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C. c. camillus in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Cyrestis |
Species: | C. camillus
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Binomial name | |
Cyrestis camillus (Fabricius, 1781)
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Cyrestis camillus, the African map butterfly, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Africa, from Sierra Leone to Ethiopia and Tanzania and from Kenya to Natal.
The wingspan is 42–55 mm.
The larvae feed on Morus, Ficus and Zizyphus species.
Subspecies
- Cyrestis camillus camillus (Sierra Leone to Cameroon, Zaire, Angola, western Kenya, Ethiopia)
- Cyrestis camillus elegans Boisduval, 1833 (Madagascar)
- Cyrestis camillus sublineata Lathy, 1901 (Zimbabwe, Mozambique to Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, eastern Kenya, South Africa)
External links
- Recent observations
- "Cyrestis Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life FormsError: "Q1314507" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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