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Amauris crawshayi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Amauris

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Similar
  
Amauris hecate, Amauris damocles, Amauris vashti, Amauris tartarea, Amauris echeria

Amauris crawshayi is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia. The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Tylophora (including T. anomala), Marsdenia, Cynanchum, Gymnema and Secamone species.

Subspecies

  • A. c. crawshayi (northern Malawi, southern and south-eastern Tanzania)
  • A. c. angola Bethune-Baker, 1914 (Angola)
  • A. c. camerunica Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Ghana to Cameroon)
  • A. c. oscarus Thurau, 1904 (western Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania)
  • A. c. simulator Talbot, 1926 (Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: south-east to Shaba, Lulua, Maniema)

    • References

    Amauris crawshayi Wikipedia
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