Amauris crawshayi

Amauris crawshayi
	From Adalbert Seitz's Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Amauris
Species:	A. crawshayi
Binomial name
	Amauris crawshayi; Butler, 1897
Synonyms
	Amauris echeria var. alba Neustetter, 1916 ; Amauris ; (Amaura) crawshayi Amauris angola Bethune-Baker, 1914; Amauris lobengula camerunica Joicey & Talbot, 1925; Amauris echeria var. oscarus Thurau, 1904; Amauris echeriax var. prominens Grünberg, 1908; Amauris crawshayi var. reducta Aurivillius, 1922; Amauris echeria simulator Talbot, 1926;

Amauris crawshayi is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Cameroon, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia.^[2] The habitat consists of forests.

The larvae feed on Vincetoxicum (syn. Tylophora) (including V. anomala), Marsdenia, Cynanchum, Gymnema and Secamone species.

Subspecies

A. c. crawshayi (northern Malawi, southern and south-eastern Tanzania)
A. c. angola Bethune-Baker, 1914 (Angola)
A. c. camerunica Joicey & Talbot, 1925 (Ghana to Cameroon)
A. c. oscarus Thurau, 1904 (western Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania)
A. c. simulator Talbot, 1926 (Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: south-east to Shaba, Lulua, Maniema)

^ "Amauris Hübner, 1816" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
^ "Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina". Archived from the original on 2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-05-30.

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