Amauris crawshayi

Amauris crawshayi
Amauris crawshayi depicted in Seitz Fauna Africana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Amauris
Species:	A. crawshayi
Binomial name
Amauris crawshayi Butler, 1897[1]
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 echeria var. prominens Grünberg, 1908 Amauris crawshayi var. reducta Aurivillius, 1922 Amauris echeria simulator Talbot, 1926

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

1. Amauris, Site of Markku Savela
2. Afrotropical Butterflies: Nymphalidae - Subtribe Danaina