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Cyrestis nivea (Straight Line Mapwing)

Synonyms: Cyrestis recaranus

Wikipedia Abstract

The Straight-line Map-wing (Cyrestis nivea) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in south-east Asia. The habitat consists of primary and secondary forest at elevations between sea level and about 500 metres. Males and females are similar, but females are somewhat paler and have slightly more rounded wings. The larvae are green and covered with tiny pale tubercules. There is a long curved dark purplish spiky horn on the fifth and eleventh segments.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Ficus conciliorum[1]

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.
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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