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