Diaethria gabaza

Diaethria gabaza is a species of butterfly of the genus Diaethria. It was described by William Chapman Hewitson in 1852. It is found from Costa Rica and Guatemala to Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela.

Diaethria gabaza
Smudged eighty-eight
D. gabaza gabaza, Colombia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Diaethria
Species:
D. gabaza
Binomial name
Diaethria gabaza
(Hewitson, 1852)[1]
Synonyms
  • Catagramma gabaza Hewitson, 1855
  • Callicore wernickei Niepelt, 1918
  • Callicore eupepla Salvin & Godman, 1868
  • Callicore gabaza gabazina Oberthür, 1916
  • Callicore gabaza violanta Martin, [1923]
  • Callicore gabaza stenotaenia Röber, 1924
  • Callicore gabaza plumbilimbata Röber, 1924
  • Callicore astala var. coeruleomarginata Apolinar, 1928
  • Callicore gabaza intermedia Viette, 1958

The larvae feed on Serjania species.

Subspecies
  • Diaethria gabaza gabaza (Colombia)
  • Diaethria gabaza eupepla (Salvin & Godman, 1868) (Costa Rica, Guatemala to Colombia)
  • Diaethria gabaza gabazina (Oberthür, 1916) (Colombia, Venezuela)

References
  1. Diaethria at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms


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