Diaethria clymena
| Cramer's Eighty-eight |
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| Dorsal view |
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| Venral view |
| Scientific classification |
| Kingdom: |
Animalia |
| Phylum: |
Arthropoda |
| Class: |
Insecta |
| Order: |
Lepidoptera |
| Family: |
Nymphalidae |
| Genus: |
Diaethria |
| Species: |
D. clymena |
| Binomial name |
Diaethria clymena
(Cramer, [1775]) |
| Subspecies |
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13 ssp., see text
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| Synonyms |
- Papilio clymena Cramer, [1775]
- Najas chlymene Hübner, [1818]
- Catagramma marchalii Guérin-Méneville, [1844]
- Callicore marchalii
- Diaethria marchalii
- Callicore lyde d'Almeida, 1934
- Diaethria janeira
- Callicore elinda Guenée, 1872
- Callicore seropa Guenée, 1872
- Callicore flava Vogeler, 1935
- Callicore extrema Vogeler, 1935
- Diaethria meridionalis
- Catagramma branickii Oberthür, 1883
- Catagramma bourcieri Boisduval, 1870
- Catagramma dodone Doubleday, [1845]
- Diaethria dodone
- Callicore beleses Godman & Salvin, 1889
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Cramer's Eighty-eight (Diaethria clymena) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from Guatemala to Peru and Brazil.
The wingspan is about 30–40 mm. 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 lamarckianum, Trema micranthum, 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)
- 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))
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