Diaethria clymena
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| D. c. juani (ventral view), Trinidad | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Diaethria |
| Species: | D. clymena |
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Diaethria clymena (Cramer, [1775]) |
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13, see text |
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13, see text
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 discovered to science by Pieter Cramer, in a fascicle of De uitlandsche Kapellen, 1775.
The wingspan is about 30–40 millimetres (1.2–1.6 in). Adults are black with a blue band on each wing. The underside is red and white with black stripes that look like an outlined number eighty-eight.
The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.
Listed alphabetically.
D. c. juani, Trinidad
ventral
D. c. marchalii, Venezuela
D. c. meridionalis
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