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Calisto chrysaoros

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Species of butterfly

Calisto chrysaoros
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Calisto
Species: C. chrysaoros
Binomial name
Calisto chrysaoros
Bates, 1935

Calisto chrysaoros is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Hispaniola, where it is found at high elevations on both southern and northern paleoislands in the refugias.

The larvae feed on Arthrostylidium species.

References

  1. "Calisto Hübner, 1823" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
Taxon identifiers
Calisto chrysaoros


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