Cyrestis

For the European species, see Map (butterfly).
Cyrestis
Cyrestis camillus elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Cyrestinae
Genus: Cyrestis
Boisduval, 1832[1]
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Apsithra Moore, [1899]
  • Sykophages Martin, 1903
  • Azania Martin, 1903

Cyrestis is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. They are known as map butterflies, so named because the wing-markings of some species resemble the lines of latitude and longitude of a world map. Cyrestis is widespread genus ranging from Africa to parts of the Indomalaya ecozone and parts of the Australasian ecozone (New Guinea).

Species

References

External links

Wikispecies has information related to: Cyrestis
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cyrestis.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/19/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.