Calisto Zangis
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''Calisto zangis'', the Jamaican satyr is a
butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
of the family Nymphalidae. It is
endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...
to
Jamaica Jamaica (; ) is an island country situated in the Caribbean Sea. Spanning in area, it is the third-largest island of the Greater Antilles and the Caribbean (after Cuba and Hispaniola). Jamaica lies about south of Cuba, and west of His ...
and
the Guianas The Guianas, sometimes called by the Spanish loan-word ''Guayanas'' (''Las Guayanas''), is a region in north-eastern South America which includes the following three territories: * French Guiana, an overseas department and region of France * ...
."Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus ''Calisto'' (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
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Butterflies described in 1775 Calisto (butterfly) Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius Butterflies of Jamaica Nymphalidae of South America {{Satyrini-stub