Cyrestis camillus
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{{Speciesbox
| name= African map butterfly
| image = African map butterfly (Cyrestis camillus camillus).jpg
| image_caption = C. c. camillus
in the Kakamega Forest, Kenya
| taxon = Cyrestis camillus
| authority = (Fabricius, 1781)
| synonyms=
- Papilio camillus Fabricius, 1781
- Cyrestis (Azania) camillus
- Papilio pantheus Drury, 1782
- Cyrestis camillus f. donckieri Le Cerf, 1927
- Cyrestis sublineata Lathy, 1901
}}
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.
Description
The wingspan is 42–55 mm.The transverse bands, especially the second, third and sixth, are broad, edged with blackish and filled in with bronzy brown; the anal lobe and anal angle of the hindwing beneath continuously filled in with black. —- ab. nigrescens Martin only differs in having the bands filled in with smoke-black and the yellow colour at the anal angle of the hindwing replaced by blue-grey. Central Africa.Seitz, A. Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln {{PD-notice}}
Biology
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
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External links
- [http://observado.org/soort/view/153094 Recent observations]
- [http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/cyrestinae/cyrestis/ "Cyrestis Boisduval, 1832"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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Category:Butterflies described in 1781
Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius
Category:Butterflies of Africa
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