Cyrestis camillus

Cyrestis camillus

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
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 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)

Recent observations
"Cyrestis Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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