Diaethria

Diaethria
	Diaethria anna
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Callicorini
Genus:	Diaethria; Billberg, 1820
Type species
	Diaethria clymena; (Cramer, 1775)
Species
	Numerous, see text
Synonyms
	Corecalla Röber, 1915; Cyclogramma Doubleday, [1847];

Diaethria is a brush-footed butterfly genus found in the Neotropical realm, ranging from Mexico to Paraguay.

Faded eighty-eight (D. astala)

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:[1]

Diaethria anna (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) – Anna's eighty-eight
Diaethria astala (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) – faded eighty-eight, navy eighty-eight
Diaethria bacchis (Doubleday, 1849)
Diaethria candrena (Godart, [1824]) – 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 (Latreille, [1809])
Diaethria gabaza (Hewitson, 1852)
Diaethria neglecta (Salvin, 1869)
Diaethria nystographa (Guenée, 1872)
Diaethria pandama (Doubleday, [1848])

References

Diaethria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Lamas, G., ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.

External links

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Diaethria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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[1] Diaethria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms