Calydna (butterfly)

Calydna
Calydna species from Museum Wiesbaden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Subfamily:	Riodininae
Genus:	Calydna Doubleday, 1847
Species
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Calydna is a genus of butterflies in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.

Species of Calydna feed as larvae on Olacaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Schoepfia , Ximenia and Conceveiba .

Species list

• Calydna cabira Hewitson, 1854 French Guiana, Brazil
• Calydna caieta Hewitson, 1854 French Guiana, Brazil
• Calydna calamisa Hewitson, 1854 Brazil
• Calydna candace Hewitson, 1859 Brazil
• Calydna carneia Hewitson, 1859 Brazil
• Calydna catana Hewitson, 1859 Venezuela, Brazil
• Calydna cea Hewitson, 1859 Brazil, Peru
• Calydna charila Hewitson, 1854 Brazil, Peru
• Calydna fissilisima Hall, 2002 Brazil
• Calydna hiria (Godart, [1824]) Brazil, Peru
• Calydna jeannea Hall, 2002 Peru
• Calydna lusca (Geyer, [1835]) Mexico, Peru
• Calydna micra Bates, 1868 Brazil
• Calydna nicolayi Hall, 2002 Peru
• Calydna stolata Brévignon, 1998 French Guiana
• Calydna thersander (Stoll, [1780]) French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil
• Calydna sturnula (Geyer, 1837) Mexico, Brazil
• Calydna venusta Godman & Salvin, [1886] Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Brazil

Sources

• Calydna at Markku Savela's website on Lepidoptera

External links

• images representing Calydna at Encyclopedia of Life
• images representing Calydna at Consortium for the Barcode of Life