Diaethria clymena explained
Diaethria clymena, the Cramer's eighty-eight, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. It was described to science by Pieter Cramer, in a fascicle of De uitlandsche Kapellen, 1775.
The wingspan is about 30–.
The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- D. c. aurelia (Guenée, 1872)
- D. c. beleses (Godman & Salvin, 1889) (Panama)
- D. c. bourcieri (Guenée, 1872) (Ecuador)
- D. c. clymena (Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas))
- D. c. colombiana (Viette, 1958) (Colombia)
- D. c. consobrina (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
- D. c. dodone (Guenée, 1872) (Colombia)
- D. c. janeira (C. Felder, 1862) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), Paraguay)
- D. c. juani Neild, 1996 (Venezuela, Trinidad)
- D. c. marchalii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
- D. c. meridionalis (Bates, 1864) (Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina))
- D. c. peruviana (Guenée, 1872) (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador)
- D. c. seropina (Röber, 1924) (Brazil (Pará))
External links
Notes and References
- http://ftp.funet.fi/index/Tree_of_life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/biblidinae/diaethria/index.html Diaethria
