''Cyrestis cassander'' is an

Indomalayan The Indomalayan realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms. It extends across most of South and Southeast Asia and into the southern parts of East Asia. Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Indi ...

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises ...

of the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a re ...

. It is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found els ...

to the Philippines.

Subspecies

*''Cyrestis cassander cassander'' C.& R.Felder, 1863 (Batanes, Luzon, Marinduque, Mindoro) *''Cyrestis cassander dacebalus'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Balabac, Camotes, Dinagat, Guimaras, Leyte, Samar) *''Cyrestis cassander orchomenus'' Fruhstorfer, 1912 (Basilan, Mindanao) *''Cyrestis cassander thessa'' Fruhstorfer, 1889 (Balabac, Calamian group, Palawan)

Taxonomy

The species is often listed as ''C. p. cassander'', a subspecies of ''

Cyrestis paulinus ''Cyrestis telamon '' is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in the Malay Archipelago. The larva feeds on ''Streblus ilicifolius ''Taxotrophis ilicifolia'' is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Moraceae. Its ...

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

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Bionames
Cyrestinae Butterflies described in 1863 Endemic fauna of the Philippines Butterflies of Asia Taxa named by Baron Cajetan von Felder Taxa named by Rudolf Felder {{Nymphalidae-stub