Amauris albimaculata, the layman, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in southern Africa.
The wingspan is 50âÂÂ60 mm for males and 62âÂÂ68 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.
Subspecies
- Amauris albimaculata albimaculata (South Africa, southern Mozambique)
- Amauris albimaculata chirindana <small>Talbot, 1941</small> (western Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe)
- Amauris albimaculata hanningtoni <small>Butler, 1888</small> (southern Somalia, eastern Kenya, eastern Tanzania)
- Amauris albimaculata intermedians <small>Hulstaert, 1926</small> (Cameroon)
- Amauris albimaculata interposita <small>Talbot, 1940</small> (western Kenya, northern Tanzania)
- Amauris albimaculata latifascia <small>Talbot, 1940</small> (Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia)
- Amauris albimaculata magnimacula <small>Rebel, 1914</small> (Uganda, eastern Zaire, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi)
- Amauris albimaculata sudanica <small>Talbot, 1940</small> (Sudan, Ethiopia)
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