Cyrestis lutea

Cyrestis lutea, the orange straight-line map-wing or little map-wing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Indonesia.

Cyrestis lutea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Cyrestis
Species:
C. lutea
Binomial name
Cyrestis lutea
(Zinken, 1831)[1]
Synonyms
  • Amathusia lutea Zinken, 1831

Thin lines run down the wings of and form evenly spaced columns. Together with the horizontal wing veins, the lines form a grid of squares.

Subspecies
  • Cyrestis lutea lutea (Java)
  • Cyrestis lutea doliones Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Bali)

References
  1. "Cyrestis Boisduval, 1832" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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