Caligo oedipus

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| name = Boomerang owl

| image = Boomerang Owl, Tambopata, Peru.jpg

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| taxon = Caligo oedipus

| authority = Stichel, 1903

| synonyms =

• Caligo oedipus ab. nocturnus Stichel, 1903
• Caligo oileus hyposchesis Dyar, 1914

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Caligo oedipus, the boomerang owl, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species can be found from Central America to Colombia.[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/morphinae/caligo/ "Caligo Hübner, [1819]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms