Diaethria

Diaethria
Diaethria anna
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Callicorini
Genus:	Diaethria Billberg, 1820
Type species
Diaethria clymena (Cramer, 1775)
Species
Numerous, see text
Synonyms
Corecalla Röber, 1915 Cyclogramma Doubleday, [1847]

Faded eighty-eight (D. astala)

Diaethria is a brush-footed butterfly genus found in the Neotropical realm, ranging from Mexico to Paraguay.

Species in this genus are commonly called eighty-eights like the related genera Callicore and Perisama, in reference to the characteristic patterns on the hindwing undersides of many. In Diaethria, the pattern consists of black dots surrounded by concentric white and black lines, and typically looks like the numbers "88" or "89".

Species

Listed alphabetically:

• Diaethria anna (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) – Anna's eighty-eight
• Diaethria astala (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) – faded eighty-eight, navy eighty-eight
• Diaethria bacchis (Doubleday, 1849)
• Diaethria candrena (Godart, [1824]) – candrena eighty-eight, number eighty
• Diaethria ceryx (Hewitson, 1864) – Ceryx eighty-eight
• Diaethria clymena (Cramer, 1775) – Cramer's eighty-eight
• Diaethria eluina (Hewitson, 1852) – eluina eighty-eight
• Diaethria euclides (Latreille, [1809])
• Diaethria gabaza (Hewitson, 1852)
• Diaethria neglecta (Salvin, 1869)
• Diaethria nystographa (Guenée, 1872)
• Diaethria pandama (Doubleday, [1848])

References

• Lamas, G., ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.

External links

• TOL
• Diaethria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms