Cyrestis camillus
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.
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 |
Binomial name | |
Cyrestis camillus (Fabricius, 1781) | |
Synonyms | |
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The wingspan is 42–55 mm.
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)
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External links
- Recent observations
- "Cyrestis Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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