Catoblepia
Genus of brush-footed butterflies
| Catoblepia | |
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| Type species: Catoblepia xanthus - MHNT | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Brassolini |
| Genus: | Catoblepia Stichel, 1902 |
| Diversity | |
| 8 species | |
Catoblepia is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Larvae feed on bananas[1] and adults feed on rotting fruit.[2]
Species
Listed alphabetically within groups:[1]
- The generosa species group:
- Catoblepia berecynthia (Cramer, [1777])
- Catoblepia generosa (Stichel, 1902)
- The xanthus species group:
- Catoblepia amphirhoe (Hübner, [1825])
- Catoblepia versitincta (Stichel, 1901)
- Catoblepia xanthicles (Godman & Salvin, [1881])
- Catoblepia xanthus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Unknown species group:
- Catoblepia orgetorix (Hewitson, 1870) – Orgetorix owl[2]
- Catoblepia soranus (Westwood, 1851)
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Catoblepia xanthus - MHNT
References
- ^ a b "Catoblepia Stichel, 1902" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Cassie, B. and Sandved, K. (2004) A World of Butterflies. NY: Bulfinch Press, p.354
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