Cyrestis telamon

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Cyrestis telamon
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Cyrestis telamon obianus in Seitz Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde9 Die indo-australischen Tagfalter
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cyrestis
Species:
C. telamon
Binomial name
Cyrestis telamon
(Linnaeus, 1758) [1]

Cyrestis telamon is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Indonesia (Maluku Islands).

Subspecies

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References

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