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
Domain:	Eukaryota
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 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)

References

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 24 ssp. crawshayi and oscarus

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.