Diaethria clymena

Diaethria clymena
Dorsal view
D. c. juani (ventral view), Trinidad
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Diaethria
Species:	D. clymena
Binomial name
Diaethria clymena (Cramer, [1775])
Subspecies
13, see text
Synonyms
Catagramma bourcieri Cramer, [1775] Najas chlymene Hübner, [1818] Catagramma marchalii Guérin-Méneville, [1844] Callicore marchalii d'Almeida, 1934 Guenée, 1872 Vogeler, 1935 Boisduval, 1870 Callicore beleses Callicore seropa Callicore extrema Catagramma branickii Catagramma dodone Godman & Salvin, 1889 Diaethria marchalii Callicore lyde Diaethria janeira Callicore elinda Guenée, 1872 Vogeler, 1935 Oberthür, 1883 Doubleday, [1845] Papilio clymena Callicore flava Diaethria meridionalis Diaethria dodone

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 "89" or "98".

The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

• 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))

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  D. c. juani, Trinidad

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  ventral

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  D. c. marchalii, Venezuela

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  D. c. meridionalis

External links

• Diaethria clymena, Butterfly Corner
• Friday Fellow: Cramer's Eighty Eight at Earthling Nature
• Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes: 88 butterfly, Learn About Butterflies