Cyrestinae is a small subfamily of nymphalid brush-footed butterflies.

It is considered to include only three genera – Marpesia, Chersonesia, and Cyrestis – distributed in the tropics.

[1] The circumscription of the Cyrestinae has seen some changes in the recent years, when the former tribes Cyrestini and Pseudergolini were suggested to form a monophyletic clade, and the name was given to the proposed new subfamily,[2] but the tribes were split again later—as two independent subfamilies—as their positions within the Nymphalidae were defined more clearly.

[1] It is now considered to be the sister group to the larger subfamily Nymphalinae, and only three genera are included: Marpesia is Neotropical and Cyrestis and Chersonesia are mainly Oriental with a few species in the Afrotropics.

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