Cithaerias pireta

Cithaerias pireta, the blushing phantom, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico south to South America.[2]

Cithaerias pireta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Genus:
Cithaerias
Species:
Cithaerias pireta
Binomial name
Cithaerias pireta
(Stoll, [1780])[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio pireta Stoll, [1780]
  • Papilio menander Drury, 1782
  • Callitaera merolina Zikán, 1942
  • Cithaerias juruaensis d'Almeida, 1951

Subspecies
  • Cithaerias pireta pireta (Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador)
  • Cithaerias pireta aurorina (Weymer, 1910) (Columbia, Brazil (Amazonas))
  • Cithaerias pireta aura (Langer, 1943) (Brazil (Amazonas, Acre))
  • Cithaerias pireta aurora (C. & R. Felder, 1862) (Peru)
  • Cithaerias pireta magdalenensis Constantino, 1995 (Colombia)
  • Cithaerias pireta tambopata Lamas, 1998 (Peru)

References
  1. "Cithaerias Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Butterflies of Amazonia - Cithaerias pireta


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