''Amauris albimaculata'', the layman, is a

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of the family

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. It is found in southern

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. The

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is 50–60 mm for males and 62–68 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'', ''

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'', ''

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'' (including '' M. angolensis'' and '' M. racemosa'') and ''

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at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''

Subspecies

*''Amauris albimaculata albimaculata'' (South Africa, southern Mozambique) *''Amauris albimaculata chirindana'' Talbot, 1941 (western Mozambique, eastern Zimbabwe) *''Amauris albimaculata hanningtoni'' Butler, 1888 (southern Somalia, eastern Kenya, eastern Tanzania) *''Amauris albimaculata intermedians'' Hulstaert, 1926 (Cameroon) *''Amauris albimaculata interposita'' Talbot, 1940 (western Kenya, northern Tanzania) *''Amauris albimaculata latifascia'' Talbot, 1940 (Tanzania, Malawi, northern Zambia) *''Amauris albimaculata magnimacula'' Rebel, 1914 (Uganda, eastern Zaire, north-western Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi) *''Amauris albimaculata sudanica'' Talbot, 1940 (Sudan, Ethiopia)

References

Seitz, A. ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'' 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plate XIII 24
''hanningtoni'' Amauris Butterflies described in 1875 Butterflies of Africa Taxa named by Arthur Gardiner Butler {{Danainae-stub