Diaethria clymena

Diaethria clymena
	Dorsal view
	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
Binomial name
	Diaethria clymena; (Cramer, [1775])
Subspecies
	13, see text
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 ;

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))