Calisto herophile
| Calisto herophile | |
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| Endemic in Cuba | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Calisto |
| Species: | C. herophile |
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| Calisto herophile Hübner, 1823 | |
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Calisto herophile is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Cuba[1] and the Bahamas. The species inhabits many habitats in Cuba, from suburban areas at major cities to the edges of evergreen and rainforests up to 1,100 meters of altitude, always disturbed in some degree.
The length of the forewings is 14–19 mm for males and 17–21 mm for females.[2] Adults can be found any month of the year throughout Cuba.
The larvae feed on various grasses.[3] They eat the entire corion after hatching and feed at night, remaining in the lower parts of grasses during the day.
Subspecies
- Calisto herophile herophile (Cuba)
- Calisto herophile apollinis Bates, 1934
- Calisto herophile parsonsi Clench, 1943 (Cuba)
Gallery
Male, upperside
Male, underside
Female, upperside
First Instar Larva
Fourth Instar Larva
Fifth Instar, pale morph
Fifth Instar, dark morph
Fifth Instar, head capsule
Pupa, lateral view
Pupa, ventral view
Pupa, dorsal view
Predation by a crab spider of the Thomisidae family
Predation by Stagmomantis domingensis
References
- ↑ Calisto, Site of Markku Savela
- ↑ Aguila, Rayner Núñez; Edelquis Oliva Plasencia; Pavel F. Matos Maravi; Niklas Wahlberg (2012). "Cuban Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a review based on morphological and DNA data". ZooKeys. 165: 57–105. doi:10.3897/zookeys.165.2206. PMC 3272634
. PMID 22328857. - ↑ Sourakov, Andrei; Evgeny V. Zakharov (2011). ""Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)". Comparative Cytogenetics. 5 (3): 191–210. doi:10.3897/compcytogen.v5i3.1730.
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