Catagramma pygas
Godart's numberwing | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Callicore |
Species: | C. pygas
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Binomial name | |
Callicore pygas (Godart, [1824])[1]
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Synonyms | |
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Callicore pygas, the Godart's numberwing or pygas eighty-eight, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and the upper Amazonian region of Brazil.
Description[]
Its common name refers to the black and white patterns on the undersides of its hindwings that resemble the number 88.
Similar eighty-eight patterns are found in other species of the genus and related genera such as Diaethria and Perisama.
The wingspan is about 45 mm.[2]
The subspecies differ from each other with regard to the underside markings.
In subspecies pygas, the white band and the metallic blue scaling on the hindwing are both replaced by pale sandy yellow.
Subspecies eucale is similar to cyllene, except for the submarginal band, which is metallic blue instead of white.[3]
C. p. thamyras Iguazu Falls, Brazil
Subspecies[]
- C. p. pygas (Brazil (Bahia))
- C. p. thamyras (Ménétriés, 1857) (Brazil (Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso), Paraguay, Argentina)
- C. p. aphidna (Hewitson, 1869) (Venezuela)
- C. p. cyllene (Doubleday, [1847]) (Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru)
- C. p. eucale (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Brazil (Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul))
- C. p. concolor (Talbot, 1928) (Brazil (Mato Grosso), Paraguay)
- C. p. rondoni (Ribeiro, 1931) (Brazil (Rondônia))
- C. p. lalannensis Brévignon, 1995 (French Guiana)
References[]
- ^ "Callicore Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Parque Nacional Sangay
- ^ Butterflies of Amazonia
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External links[]
Citizen science observations for Catagramma pygas at iNaturalist
- Biblidinae
- Lepidoptera of Brazil
- Nymphalidae of South America
- Butterflies described in 1824
- Biblidinae stubs