| African map butterfly | |
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| C. c. camillus in theKakamega Forest,Kenya | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Cyrestis |
| Species: | C. camillus |
| Binomial name | |
| Cyrestis camillus (Fabricius, 1781) | |
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Cyrestis camillus, theAfrican map butterfly, is abutterfly of the familyNymphalidae. It is found inAfrica, fromSierra Leone toEthiopia andTanzania and fromKenya toNatal.
Thewingspan 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.[1]
The larvae feed onMorus,Ficus andZizyphus species.
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