Callicore
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.
Callicore | |
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Hesperis eighty-eight (C. hesperis) upperside of museum specimen | |
Texa eighty-eight (C. texa) underside, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil | |
Scientific classification | |
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 |
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:
- Callicore atacama (Hewitson, 1852) – yellow-banded eighty-eight
- Callicore felderi (Hewitson, 1864) – 8-spot numberwing
- Callicore hesperis (Guérin, 1844) – hesperis eighty-eight
The cyllene species group:
- Callicore pygas (Godart, [1824]) – pygas eighty-eight
The cynosura species group:
- Callicore astarte (Cramer, 1779) – Astarte eighty-eight
- Callicore cynosura (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847) – Cynosura eighty-eight
- Callicore excelsior (Hewitson, 1857) – excelsior eighty-eight or superb numberwing
- Callicore ines (Hopp, 1922)
- Callicore sorana (Godart, 1832) – Sorana eighty-eight
The hydarnis species group
- Callicore hydarnis (Godart, [1824])
The hydaspes species group:
- Callicore brome (Doyère, [1840]) – four-spotted eighty-eight
- Callicore hydaspes (Drury, 1782) – Hydaspes eighty-eight
- Callicore lyca (Doubleday, [1847]) – Aegina numberwing
- Callicore maronensis (Oberthür, 1916)
The pitheas species group:
- Callicore cyclops (Staudinger, 1891)
- Callicore pitheas (Latreille, 1811) – two-eyed eighty-eight
The texa species group:
- Callicore texa (Hewitson, 1854) – Texa eighty-eight
The tolima species group:
- Callicore eunomia (Hewitson, 1853) – Eunomia eighty-eight
- Callicore hystaspes (Fabricius, 1781) – Hystaspes eighty-eight
- Callicore tolima (Hewitson, 1851) – blue-and-orange eighty-eight
Gallery
- Astarte eighty-eight,
C. astarte, upperside - Aegina numberwing,
C. l. salamis, underside - Eunomia eighty-eight,
C. eunomia, underside - Superb numberwing,
C. e. pastazza, underside - Cynosura eighty-eight,
C. cynosura, underside
References
- "Callicore Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Casagrande, M. M., Mielke, O. H. H., & Brown, K. S., Jr. (1998). Butterflies (Lepidoptera) considered as threatened in Minas Gerais, Brazil (in Portuguese). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15(1), 241-259.
- Garwood, K. M., Lehman, Carter, W., & Carter, G. (2007). Butterflies of Southern Amazonia. Mission, Texas: Neotropical Butterflies.
- Lamas, G., ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.
External links
Wikispecies has information related to Callicorina. |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Callicore. |
- images representing Callicore at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
- Callicore Tree of Life
- Pteron in Japanese but with binomial names.