Diaethria clymena
Appearance
Diaethria clymena | |
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Dorsal view | |
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D. c. juani (ventral view), Trinidad | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Diaethria |
Species: | D. clymena
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Binomial name | |
Diaethria clymena (Cramer, [1775])
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Subspecies | |
13, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Diaethria clymena, the Cramer's eighty-eight, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. It was discovered to science by Pieter Cramer, in a fascicle of De uitlandsche Kapellen, 1775.
The wingspan is about 30–40 millimetres (1.2–1.6 in). 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 "89" or "98".
The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- D. c. aurelia (Guenée, 1872)
- D. c. beleses (Godman & Salvin, 1889) (Panama)
- D. c. bourcieri (Guenée, 1872) (Ecuador)
- D. c. clymena (Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas))
- D. c. colombiana (Viette, 1958) (Colombia)
- D. c. consobrina (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
- D. c. dodone (Guenée, 1872) (Colombia)
- D. c. janeira (C. Felder, 1862) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), Paraguay)
- D. c. juani Neild, 1996 (Venezuela, Trinidad)
- D. c. marchalii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
- D. c. meridionalis (Bates, 1864) (Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina))
- D. c. peruviana (Guenée, 1872) (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador)
- D. c. seropina (Röber, 1924) (Brazil (Pará))
References
External links
- Diaethria clymena, Butterfly Corner
- Friday Fellow: Cramer's Eighty Eight at Earthling Nature
- Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes: 88 butterfly, Learn About Butterflies