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;

The African Map Butterfly (Cyrestis camillus) 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)

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