Cyrestis camillus

Cyrestis camillus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cyrestis
Species:	C. camillus
Binomial name
Cyrestis camillus (Fabricius, 1781)
Synonyms
Papilio camillus Fabricius, 1781

The African Map Butterfly (Cyrestis camillus) 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 sublineata Lathy, 1901 (Zimbabwe, Mozambique to Malawi, Zambia, Tanzania, eastern Kenya, South Africa)
• Cyrestis camillus elegans Boisduval, 1833 (Madagascar)

External links

• Recent observations
• Cyrestis on funet

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