Calisto chrysaoros

Calisto chrysaoros
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Satyrini
Genus: Calisto
Species: C. chrysaoros
Binomial name
Calisto chrysaoros
Bates, 1935

Calisto chrysaoros is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is endemic to Hispaniola,[1] where it is found at high elevations on the both southern and northern paleoislands in the refugias.

The larvae feed on Arthrostylidium species.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Calisto, Site of Markku Savela
  2. ↑ “Darwin’s butterflies”? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
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