Diaethria clymena
| Diaethria clymena | |
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| D. c. juani (ventral), Trinidad | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Diaethria |
| Species: | D. clymena |
| Binomial name | |
| Diaethria clymena (Cramer, [1775]) | |
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13 ssp., see text | |
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Diaethria clymena or Cramer's Eighty-eight is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. It was discovered to science by Pieter Cramer, in a fascicle of De uitlandsche Kapellen, 1775.
The wingspan is about 30–40 millimetres (1.2–1.6 in). Adults are black with a blue band on each wing. The underside is red and white with black stripes that look like an outlined number eighty-eight.
The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- Diaethria clymena aurelia (Guenée, 1872)
- Diaethria clymena beleses (Godman & Salvin, 1889) (Panama)
- Diaethria clymena bourcieri (Guenée, 1872) (Ecuador)
- Diaethria clymena clymena (Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas))
- Diaethria clymena colombiana (Viette, 1958) (Colombia)
- Diaethria clymena consobrina (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
- Diaethria clymena dodone (Guenée, 1872) (Colombia)
- Diaethria clymena janeira (C. Felder, 1862) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), Paraguay)
- Diaethria clymena juani Neild, 1996 (Venezuela, Trinidad)
- Diaethria clymena marchalii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
- Diaethria clymena meridionalis (Bates, 1864) (Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina))
- Diaethria clymena peruviana (Guenée, 1872) (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador)
- Diaethria clymena seropina (Röber, 1924) (Brazil (Pará))
References
External links
- Diaethria clymena, Butterfly Corner
- Friday Fellow: Cramer's Eighty Eight at Earthling Nature.
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