''Dismorphia lygdamis'', the catasticta mimic or Lygdamis mimic white, is a

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the family

Pieridae The Pieridae are a large family (biology), family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from Afrotropical realm, tropical Africa and Indomalayan realm, tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern ...

. It is found in

Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west. It also includes the Galápagos Province which contain ...

and

Peru Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pac ...

. The habitat consists of cloud forests. The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingsp ...

is about .World Field Guide
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mimic In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between different species, or between individuals of the same species. In the simples ...

of '' Catasticta sinapina''.

Subspecies

The following subspecies are recognised: *''Dismorphia lygdamis lygdamis'' (Ecuador) *''Dismorphia lygdamis doris'' Baumann & Reissinger, 1969 (Peru) *''Dismorphia lygdamis beatrix'' Lamas, 2004 (Peru)

References

Dismorphiinae Butterflies described in 1869 Pieridae of South America Taxa named by William Chapman Hewitson Lepidoptera of Peru Lepidoptera of Ecuador {{Pieridae-stub