Diaethra clymena

Diaethria clymena

Cramer's Eighty-eight
Dorsal view
Venral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Biblidinae
Genus:	Diaethria
Species:	D. clymena
Binomial name
Diaethria clymena (Cramer, [1775])
Subspecies
13 ssp., 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

Cramer's Eighty-eight (Diaethria clymena) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found from Guatemala to Peru and Brazil.

The wingspan is about 30–40 mm. 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 eighty-eight.

The larvae feed on , , and Theobroma.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

References

External links

• Diaethria clymena, Butterfly Corner

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