Colobura dirce

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Dirce beauty
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Colobura
Species:
C. dirce
Binomial name
Colobura dirce
Colobura dirce.png
Approximate range of the Dirce beauty
note: Caribbean sightings missing
Synonyms
  • Papilio dirce

Colobura dirce, the Dirce beauty, mosaic or zebra mosaic, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Central America. the Caribbean, and northern South America.

The length of the forewings is about 33 mm.

The larvae feed on Cecropia species.

Subspecies

There are two recognised subspecies: [1]

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References

  1. "Colobura Billberg, 1820" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms