Callicore
Callicore is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical Ecozone. This genus, like some related ones, was formerly lumped together as the paraphyletic "Catagramma" assemblage.
Species in this genus are commonly called eighty-eights or numberwings like the related genera Diaethria and Perisama, in reference to the characteristic patterns on the hindwing undersides of many. In Callicore, the pattern consists of bluish dots surrounded by black and looks more like "αB" or "8°", though some members of this genus have a completely different arrangement of dots. The forewing undersides vary little between species, being black with one or two broad orange-yellow bands in the basal part and one thin and one very faint yellowish band near the apex.
C. hydarnis is listed as endangered species in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Species
Species are listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence; some subspecies are also listed:
- Callicore hydaspes (Drury, 1782) – Hydaspes Eight-eight
- Callicore aegina (Felder & Felder, 1861)
- Callicore aegina aegina
- Callicore aegina salamis
- Callicore mengeli
- Callicore lyca (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847)
- Callicore lyca lyca
- Callicore lyca aerias (Godman & Salvin, 1883)
- Callicore mionina (Hewitson, 1855)
- Callicore brome (Boisduval, 1836)
- Callicore transversa
- Callicore maronensis
- Callicore atacama (Hewitson, 1852)
- Callicore atacama atacama
- Callicore atacama manova (Fruhstorfer, 1916)
- Callicore hesperis (Guérin, 1844) – Hesperis Eighty-eight
- Callicore cajetani (Guenée, 1872)
- Callicore felderi
- Callicore faustina (Bates, 1866)
- Callicore pygas (Godart, 1824) – Pygas Eighty-eight
- Callicore pygas pygas
- Callicore pygas cyllene (Doubleday & Westwood, 1847)
- Callicore eucale
- Callicore aphidna
- Callicore hydamis
- Callicore tolima (Hewitson, 1852)
- Callicore eunomia (Hewitson, 1853) – Eunomia Eighty-eight
- Callicore hystaspes (Fabricius, 1781) – Hystaspes Eighty-eight
- Callicore hystaspes hystaspes
- Callicore hystaspes zelphanta (Hewitson, 1858)
- Callicore discrepans
- Callicore denina
- Callicore chimana (Oberthür, 1916)
- Callicore platytaenia
- Callicore guatemalena (Bates, 1866)
- Callicore pacifica (Bates, 1866)
- Callicore pacifica pacifica
- Callicore pacifica bugaba (Staudinger, 1875)
- Callicore peralta (Dillon, 1948)
- Callicore levi
- Callicore texa (Hewitson, 1854) – Texa Eighty-eight
- Callicore texa texa
- Callicore texa titania (Salvin, 1869)
- Callicore maximilla
- Callicore maimuna (Hewitson, 1858)
- Callicore cynosura (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847) – Cynosura Eighty-eight
- Callicore astarte (Cramer, 1779) – Astarte Eighty-eight
- Callicore astarte astarte
- Callicore astarte stratiotes (Felder & Felder, 1861)
- Callicore selima
- Callicore excelsior (Hewitson, 1857) – Excelsior Eighty-eight
- Callicore coruscans
- Callicore patelina (Hewitson, 1853)
- Callicore casta (Salvin, 1869)
- Callicore arirambae
- Callicore sorana (Godart, 1832) – Sorana Eighty-eight
- Callicore oculata
- Callicore ines
- Callicore pitheas (Latreille, 1811)
- Callicore cyclops
- Callicore codomannus
- Callicore aretas
- Callicore lepta
References
- Casagrande, M. M., Mielke, O. H. H., & Brown, K. S., Jr. (1998). Butterflies (Lepidoptera) considered as threatened in Minas Gerais, Brazil (in Portuguese). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15(1), 241-259.
- Garwood, K. M., Lehman, Carter, W., & Carter, G. (2007). Butterflies of Southern Amazonia. Mission, Texas: Neotropical Butterflies.
- Lamas, G., ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.
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