''Callicore astarte'', the Astarte eighty-eight, is a species of
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
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a red ...
. It is found from
Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatema ...
south to
Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.
Subspecies
*''C. a. astarte'' (Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil (Pará))
*''C. a. codomannus''
(Fabricius, 1781) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro))
*''C. a. patelina''
(Hewitson, 1853) (southern Mexico to Costa Rica, Guatemala)
*''C. a. stratiotes''
(C. & R. Felder, 1861) (Brazil (Amazonas))
*''C. a. casta''
(Salvin, 1869) (Mexico)
*''C. a. selima''
(Guénee, 1872) (Brazil (Minas Gerais, São Paulo, Santa Catarina, Goiás, Mato Grosso))
*''C. a. antillena''
(Kaye, 1914) (Trinidad)
*''C. a. otheres''
(Fruhstorfer, 1916) (Colombia)
*''C. a. astartoides''
(Dillon, 1948) (Bolivia)
*''C. a. lilliputa''
(Dillon, 1948) (Colombia)
*''C. a. staudingeri''
(Dillon, 1948) (Venezuela)
*''C. a. panamaensis''
Kariya, 2006
References
Biblidinae
Butterflies of North America
Butterflies of Central America
Nymphalidae of South America
Butterflies described in 1779
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