''Callicore astarte'', the Astarte eighty-eight, is a species of

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of the family

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. It is found from

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south to

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Subspecies

*''C. a. astarte'' (Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará)) *''C. a. codomannus'' (Fabricius, 1781) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)) *''C. a. patelina'' (Hewitson, 1853) (southern Mexico to Costa Rica, Guatemala) *''C. a. stratiotes'' (C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Brazil (Amazonas)) *''C. a. casta'' (Salvin, 1869) (Mexico) *''C. a. selima'' (Guénee, 1872) (Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Goiás, Mato Grosso)) *''C. a. antillena'' (Kaye, 1914) (Trinidad) *''C. a. otheres'' (Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Colombia) *''C. a. astartoides'' (Dillon, 1948) (Bolivia) *''C. a. lilliputa'' (Dillon, 1948) (Colombia) *''C. a. staudingeri'' (Dillon, 1948) (Venezuela) *''C. a. panamaensis'' Kariya, 2006

References

Biblidinae Taxa named by Pieter Cramer Butterflies of Central America Nymphalidae of South America Butterflies described in 1779 Lepidoptera of Mexico Lepidoptera of Brazil Lepidoptera of French Guiana Fauna of Suriname Fauna of Costa Rica Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago Lepidoptera of Colombia Lepidoptera of Venezuela Lepidoptera of Bolivia {{Biblidinae-stub