Amauris crawshayi

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.

Amauris crawshayi
From Adalbert Seitz's 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 echeriax var. prominens Grünberg, 1908
  • Amauris crawshayi var. reducta Aurivillius, 1922
  • Amauris echeria simulator Talbot, 1926

The larvae feed on Tylophora (including T. 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)

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


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