''Cithaerias pireta'', the blushing phantom, 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

South America South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the southe ...

.Butterflies of Amazonia - ''Cithaerias pireta''
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Subspecies

*''Cithaerias pireta pireta'' (Mexico to Colombia, Ecuador) *''Cithaerias pireta aurorina'' (Weymer, 1910) (Columbia, Brazil (Amazonas)) *''Cithaerias pireta aura'' (Langer, 1943) (Brazil (Amazonas, Acre)) *''Cithaerias pireta aurora'' (C. & R. Felder, 1862) (Peru) *''Cithaerias pireta magdalenensis'' Constantino, 1995 (Colombia) *''Cithaerias pireta tambopata'' Lamas, 1998 (Peru)

References

Butterflies described in 1780 Haeterini Butterflies of North America Butterflies of Central America Nymphalidae of South America Taxa named by Caspar Stoll {{Satyrinae-stub