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map butterflies
Cyrestis
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 a widespread genus ranging from Africa to parts of the Indomalaya ecozone and parts of the Australasian ecozone (New Guinea).
25 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Common Mapwing
speciesCyrestis thyodamas
Marbled Map
speciesCyrestis cocles
Little Mapwing
speciesCyrestis themire
Common Mapwing
speciesCyrestis maenalis
Straight-line Mapwing
speciesCyrestis nivea
African Map Butterfly
speciesCyrestis camillus
Cyrestis strigata
speciesCyrestis strigata
Godart's Map Butterfly
speciesCyrestis acilia
Cyrestis thyonneus
speciesCyrestis thyonneus
Cyrestis lutea
speciesCyrestis lutea
Cyrestis heracles
speciesCyrestis heracles
Cyrestis paulinus
speciesCyrestis paulinus
Sumatran Mapwing
speciesCyrestis irmae
Map Butterfly
speciesCyrestis achates
Cyrestis whitmei
speciesCyrestis whitmei
Cyrestis cassander
speciesCyrestis cassander
Cyrestis nais
speciesCyrestis nais
Cyrestis telamon
speciesCyrestis telamon
Cyrestis kudrati
speciesCyrestis kudrati
Cyrestis biaka
speciesCyrestis biaka
Cyrestis eximia
speciesCyrestis eximia
Nicobar Map Butterfly
speciesCyrestis tabula
Cyrestis adaemon
speciesCyrestis adaemon
Cyrestis theresae
speciesCyrestis theresae
Cyrestis andamanensis
speciesCyrestis andamanensis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 125556.