Cithaerias pireta

Cithaerias pireta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Cithaerias
Species:	Cithaerias pireta
Binomial name
Cithaerias pireta (Stoll, [1780])
Synonyms
Papilio pireta Stoll, [1780] Papilio menander Drury, 1782 Callitaera merolina Zikán, 1942 Cithaerias juruaensis d'Almeida, 1951

Cithaerias pireta, the blushing phantom, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico south to South America.

Subspecies

• Cithaerias pireta pireta (Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador)
• Cithaerias pireta aurorina (Weymer, 1910) (Columbia, Brazil (Amazonas))
• Cithaerias pireta aura (Langer, 1943) (Brazil (Amazonas, Acre))
• Cithaerias pireta aurora (C. & R. Felder, 1862) (Peru)
• Cithaerias pireta magdalenensis Constantino, 1995 (Colombia)
• Cithaerias pireta tambopata Lamas, 1998 (Peru)