''Diaethria'' is a
brush-footed butterfly genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
found in the
Neotropical realm, ranging from Mexico to Paraguay.
Species in this genus are commonly called eighty-eights like the related genera ''
Callicore'' and ''
Perisama'', in reference to the characteristic patterns on the hindwing undersides of many. In ''Diaethria'', the pattern consists of black dots surrounded by
concentric white and black lines, and typically looks like the numbers "
88" or "
89".
Species
Listed alphabetically:
''Diaethria''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
* '' Diaethria anna'' (Guérin-Méneville, 844 – Anna's eighty-eight
* '' Diaethria astala'' (Guérin-Méneville, 844 – faded eighty-eight, navy eighty-eight
* '' Diaethria bacchis'' (Doubleday, 1849)
* '' Diaethria candrena'' (Godart, 824 – candrena eighty-eight, number eighty
* '' Diaethria ceryx'' (Hewitson, 1864) – Ceryx eighty-eight
* '' Diaethria clymena'' (Cramer, 1775) – Cramer's eighty-eight
* '' Diaethria eluina'' (Hewitson, 1852) – eluina eighty-eight
* ''Diaethria euclides
''Diaethria euclides'' is a species of butterfly of the genus ''Diaethria''. It was described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809. It is found from eastern Colombia to north-western Venezuela, western Ecuador and northwestern Peru.
Subspecies
*'' ...
'' (Latreille, 809
* '' Diaethria gabaza'' (Hewitson, 1852)
* '' Diaethria neglecta'' (Salvin, 1869)
* '' Diaethria nystographa'' (Guenée, 1872)
* '' Diaethria pandama'' (Doubleday, 848
References
*Lamas, G., ed. 2004. ''Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea''. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.
External links
TOL
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
Biblidinae
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Gustaf Johan Billberg
Taxa described in 1820
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