Amauris crawshayi
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Amauris crawshayi is a butterfly in the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.[2] The habitat consists of forests.
The larvae feed on Tylophora (including Tylophora anomala), Marsdenia, Cynanchum, Gymnema and Secamone species.
Subspecies
- Amauris crawshayi crawshayi (northern Malawi, southern and south-eastern Tanzania)
- Amauris crawshayi angola Bethune-Baker, 1914 (Angola)
- Amauris crawshayi camerunica Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Ghana to Cameroon)
- Amauris crawshayi oscarus Thurau, 1904 (western Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania)
- Amauris crawshayi simulator Talbot, 1926 (Zambia, Democratic Republic of Congo: south-east to Shaba, Lulua, Maniema)
References
- Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 24 ssp. crawshayi and oscarus
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- ^ Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina