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. The habitat consists of forests.
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 <small>Bethune-Baker, 1914</small> (Angola)
- A. c. camerunica <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1925</small> (Ghana to Cameroon)
- A. c. oscarus <small>Thurau, 1904</small> (western Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, north-western Tanzania)
- A. c. simulator <small>Talbot, 1926</small> (Zambia, Democratic Republic of the Congo: south-east to Shaba, Lulua, Maniema)
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