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Cyrestis camillus

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Scientific name
  
Cyrestis camillus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Cyrestis

Rank
  
Species

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Similar
  
Cyrestis, Graphium leonidas, Hypolimnas anthedon, Libythea labdaca, Leptosia alcesta

Cyrestis camillus, the African map butterfly, is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. 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)

    • References

    Cyrestis camillus Wikipedia
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