Catagramma pygas

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.

Godart's numberwing
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Catagramma
Species:
C. pygas
Binomial name
Catagramma pygas
(Godart, [1824])[1]
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

Description

The wingspan is about 45 mm.[2] 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.

The subspecies differ from each other with regard to the underside markings. In subspecies pygas, the white band and the metallic blue scaling on the hindwing are both replaced by pale sandy yellow. Subspecies eucale is similar to cyllene, except for the submarginal band, which is metallic blue instead of white.[3]

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

References
  1. "Callicore Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Parque Nacional Sangay
  3. Butterflies of Amazonia

Citizen science observations for Catagramma pygas at iNaturalist


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