Biology:Catagramma pygas

Short description: Species of butterfly

Godart's numberwing
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Catagramma
Species:	C. pygas
Binomial name
Catagramma pygas (Godart, [1824])
Synonyms
Nymphalis pygas Godart, [1824] Callicore pygas (Godart, [1824]) Catagramma pygas ophis Fruhstorfer, 1916 Catagramma pygas paragrias Fruhstorfer, 1916 Catagramma splendens Oberthür, 1916 Catagramma splendens coerulea Talbot, 1928 Catagramma pygas typhla Röber, 1915 Catagramma cyllene aurantiaca Oberthür, 1916 Catagramma pygas agrianes Fruhstorfer, 1916 Catagramma philomena Oberthür, 1916 Catagramma cyllene madeirensis Dillon, 1948

Catagramma pygas, the Godart's numberwing or pygas eighty-eight, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Venezuela, Guyana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay and the upper Amazonian region of Brazil .

Description

The wingspan is about 45 mm. Its common name refers to the black and white patterns on the undersides of its hindwings that resemble the number 88. Similar eighty-eight patterns are found in other species of the genus and related genera such as Diaethria and Perisama.

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  C. p. thamyras Iguazu Falls, Brazil

Subspecies

• C. p. aphidna Hewitson, 1869 - Venezuela
• C. p. concolor Talbot, 1928 - Brazil (Mato Grosso), Paraguay)
• C. p. cyllene Doubleday, [1847] - Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru
• C. p. eucale Fruhstorfer, 1916 - Brazil (Santa Catarina, Rio Grande do Sul)
• C. p. lalannensis Brévignon, 1995 - French Guiana
• C. p. pygas (Godart, [1824]) - Brazil (Bahia)
• C. p. rondoni Ribeiro, 1931 - Brazil (Rondônia)
• C. p. thamyras Ménétriés, 1857 - Brazil (Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso), Paraguay, Argentina

External links

Citizen science observations for Catagramma pygas at iNaturalist

Wikidata ☰ Q2934160 entry