| Cyrestis camillus | |
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| C. c. camillus in the Kakamega 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) | |
| Synonyms | |
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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.
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. [1]
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