''Diaethria clymena'', the Cramer's eighty-eight, is a species of

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of the family

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. It is found from

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and

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. It was discovered to science by

Pieter Cramer Pieter Cramer (21 May 1721 (baptized) – 28 September 1776), was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, remembered as an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing, and a mem ...

, in a fascicle of ''De uitlandsche Kapellen'', 1775. The

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is about . Adults are black with a blue band on each wing. The underside is red and white with black stripes that look like an outlined number "89" or "98". The larvae feed on ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.''Diaethria''
funet.fi *''D. c. aurelia'' (Guenée, 1872) *''D. c. beleses'' (Godman & Salvin, 1889) (Panama) *''D. c. bourcieri'' (Guenée, 1872) (Ecuador) *''D. c. clymena'' (Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas)) *''D. c. colombiana'' (Viette, 1958) (Colombia) *''D. c. consobrina'' (Guérin-Méneville,

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(Colombia, Venezuela) *''D. c. dodone'' (Guenée, 1872) (Colombia) *''D. c. janeira'' (C. Felder, 1862) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), Paraguay) *''D. c. juani'' Neild, 1996 (Venezuela, Trinidad) *''D. c. marchalii'' (Guérin-Méneville,

(Nicaragua to Colombia) *''D. c. meridionalis'' (Bates, 1864) (Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina)) *''D. c. peruviana'' (Guenée, 1872) (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador) *''D. c. seropina'' (Röber, 1924) (Brazil (Pará)) File:Diaethria clymena or Cramer's Eighty-eight.jpg, ''D. c. juani'',

Trinidad Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands of Trinidad and Tobago. The island lies off the northeastern coast of Venezuela and sits on the continental shelf of South America. It is often referred to as the southernmos ...

File:Diaethria clymena ventral 2.jpg, ventral File:Diaethria marchalii.jpg, ''D. c. marchalii'',

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File:Diaethriameridionalis.jpg, ''D. c. meridionalis''

References

External links

''Diaethria clymena''
Butterfly Corner
''Friday Fellow: Cramer's Eighty Eight''
at Earthling Nature

Learn About Butterflies {{Taxonbar, from=Q574645 Biblidinae Butterflies described in 1775 Fauna of Brazil Nymphalidae of South America Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago Taxa named by Pieter Cramer