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Amauris albimaculata (Layman)

Synonyms: Amauris echeria (heterotypic); Amauris lohengula

Wikipedia Abstract

Amauris albimaculata (layman) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in southern Africa. The wingspan is 50–60 mm for males and 62–68 for females. Adults are on the wing year round (with peaks in summer and autumn). The larvae feed on Tylophora anomala, T. stolzii, Cynanchum chirindense, C. vincetoxicum, Gymnema, Marsdenia (including M. angolensis and M. racemosa) and Secamone.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Vincetoxicum anomalum[1]
Vincetoxicum hirundinaria (White swallow-wort)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0