# Cyrestis

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For the European species, see [Map (butterfly)](/source/Map_(butterfly)).

***Cyrestis*** is a butterfly genus in the family [Nymphalidae](/source/Nymphalidae). They are known as **map butterflies**, so named because the wing-markings of some species resemble the lines of latitude and longitude of a world map. *Cyrestis* is a widespread genus ranging from [Africa](/source/Afrotropical_realm) to parts of the [Indomalayan realm](/source/Indomalayan_realm) and parts of the [Australasian realm](/source/Australasian_realm) ([New Guinea](/source/New_Guinea)).

## Description

The following characteristics apply to all the species of *Cyrestis*. They are very delicate and strikingly coloured with exceedingly tender and thin, but unusually large wings whose surface is out of all proportion with the slightly-built, slender and delicate body. The eyes are large, prominent and naked; palpi long, pointed, beak-like, slightly curved upwards, resembling those of the genus *[Libythea](/source/Libythea)*. The principal and most striking markings found on both wings in all the species consist in finer or coarser blackish bands running parallel to the body and at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the wings; of these bands always three unite on each wing to form a broader submarginal fascia. In the white-coloured species these bands or streaks are so fine that, in combination with the frequently black veins, they remind one of the meridian lines on a map, which has given rise in British India and the Straits to the popular and expressive name “the Map”. [2]

## Species

- *[Cyrestis achates](/source/Cyrestis_achates)* Butler, 1865
- *[Cyrestis acilia](/source/Cyrestis_acilia)* (Godart, [1824])
- *[Cyrestis andamanensis](/source/Cyrestis_andamanensis)* Staudinger
- *[Cyrestis adaemon](/source/Cyrestis_adaemon)* Godman & Salvin, 1879
- *[Cyrestis camillus](/source/Cyrestis_camillus)* (Fabricius, 1781)
- *[Cyrestis cassander](/source/Cyrestis_cassander)* C. & R. Felder, 1863
- *[Cyrestis cocles](/source/Cyrestis_cocles)* (Fabricius, 1787)
- *[Cyrestis heracles](/source/Cyrestis_heracles)* Staudinger, 1896
- *[Cyrestis irmae](/source/Cyrestis_irmae)* Forbes, 1885
- *[Cyrestis kudrati](/source/Cyrestis_kudrati)* Jumalon, 1975
- *[Cyrestis lutea](/source/Cyrestis_lutea)* (Zinken, 1831)
- *[Cyrestis maenalis](/source/Cyrestis_maenalis)* Erichson, 1834
- *[Cyrestis nais](/source/Cyrestis_nais)* Wallace, 1869
- *[Cyrestis nivea](/source/Cyrestis_nivea)* (Zinken, 1831)
- *[Cyrestis paulinus](/source/Cyrestis_paulinus)* C. & R. Felder, 1860
- *[Cyrestis tabula](/source/Cyrestis_tabula)* de Nicéville, 1883
- *[Cyrestis telamon](/source/Cyrestis_telamon)* (Linnaeus, 1758)
- *[Cyrestis themire](/source/Cyrestis_themire)* Honrath, [1884]
- *[Cyrestis theresae](/source/Cyrestis_theresae)* de Nicéville, 1894
- *[Cyrestis thyodamas](/source/Cyrestis_thyodamas)* Boisduval, 1846
- *[Cyrestis thyonneus](/source/Cyrestis_thyonneus)* (Cramer, [1779])

## References

1. ["*Cyrestis* Boisduval, 1832"](http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/cyrestinae/cyrestis/) at Markku Savela's *Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms*

1. Seitz, A. 1912–1927. *Die Indo-Australien Tagfalter*. *The Macrolepidoptera of the World* **9**: 1–766;[pdf](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56106278#page/588/mode/1up) 767–1201,[pdf](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56105786#page/5/mode/1up) pls 1–175.[pdf](https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/56108980#page/13/mode/1up)

## External links

- [images representing *Cyrestis*](http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=7118) at [Consortium for the Barcode of Life](/source/Consortium_for_the_Barcode_of_Life)

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