Calydna (butterfly)
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| Calydna sp. Coll. Museum Wiesbaden | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Subfamily: | Riodininae |
| Genus: | Calydna Doubleday, 1847 |
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Calydna is a genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.
Species of Calydna feed, as larvae on Olacaceae, Euphorbiaceae.Reported larva foodplants are Schoepfia, Ximenia, Conceveiba.
Species list
- Calydna cabira Hewitson, 1854 Guyane, Brazil.
- Calydna caieta Hewitson, 1854Guyane , Brazil.
- Calydna calamisa Hewitson, 1854 Brazil.
- Calydna candace Hewitson, 1859 Brazil.
- Calydna carneia Hewitson, 1859 Brazil
- Calydna catana Hewitson, 1859 Venezuela , Brazil.
- Calydna cea Hewitson, 1859 Brazil , Peru.
- Calydna charila Hewitson, 1854 Brazil, Peru.
- Calydna fissilisima Hall, 2002 Brazil
- Calydna hiria (Godart, [1824]) Brazil, Peru.
- Calydna jeannea Hall, 2002 Peru.
- Calydna lusca (Geyer, [1835]) Mexico , Peru.
- Calydna micra Bates, 1868 Brazil
- Calydna nicolayi Hall, 2002 Peru.
- Calydna stolata Brévignon, 1998 Guyane
- Calydna thersander (Stoll, [1780]) Guyane, Guyana, Surinam , Brazil.
- Calydna sturnula (Geyer, 1837) Mexico , Brazil.
- Calydna venusta Godman & Salvin, [1886] Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyane, Guyana, Surinam , Brazil.
Source
External links
- images representing Calydna at Encyclopedia of Life
- images representing Calydna at Consortium for the Barcode of Life
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