Callicore

Callicore
Hesperis Eighty-eight (C. hesperis)
Upperside of museum specimen
Pygas Eighty-eight (C. pygas)
Underside from Iguazu Falls, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Callicorini
Genus: Callicore
Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Callicore astarte
Cramer, [1779]
Diversity
See text
Synonyms

Catagramma Boisduval, 1836

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

Listed alphabetically within species groups.[1]

The atacama species-group:

The cyllene species-group:

The cynosura species-group:

The hydarnis species-group

The hydaspes species-group:

The pitheas species-group:

The texa species-group:

The tolima species-group:

Gallery

References

  1. Callicore, funet.fi

External links

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