Callicore

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Callicore
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Hesperis eighty-eight ( C. hesperis )
upperside of museum specimen
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Texa eighty-eight ( C. texa )
underside, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Callicorini
Genus: Callicore
Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Callicore astarte
Cramer, [1779]
Diversity
See text
Synonyms

Catagramma Boisduval, 1836

Callicore is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical realm. This genus, like some related ones, was formerly lumped together as the paraphyletic Catagramma assemblage.

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Species in this genus are commonly called eighty-eights or numberwings like the related genera Diaethria and Perisama , in reference to the characteristic patterns on the hindwing undersides of many. In Callicore, the pattern consists of bluish dots surrounded by black and looks more like "αB" or "8°", though some members of this genus have a completely different arrangement of dots. The forewing undersides vary little between species, being black with one or two broad orange-yellow bands in the basal part and one thin and one very faint yellowish band near the apex.

C. hydarnis is listed as an endangered species in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups: [1]

The atacama species group:

The cyllene species group: [see Catagramma ]

The cynosura species group:

The hydarnis species group: [see Catagramma ]

The hydaspes species group: [part See Catagramma ]

The pitheas species group:

The texa species group:

The tolima species group: [see Catagramma ]


Else: See Catagramma for:

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References

  1. "Callicore Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms