Callicore

{{Short description|Genus of brush-footed butterflies}}

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{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Catahesperis.jpg

| image_caption = Hesperis eighty-eight (C. hesperis)
upperside of museum specimen

| image2 = Texa eighty-eight (Callicore texa).jpg

| image2_caption = Texa eighty-eight (C. texa)
underside, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

| display_parents = 2

| taxon = Callicore

| authority = Hübner, [1819]

| type_species = Callicore astarte

| type_species_authority = Cramer, [1779]

| diversity = See text

| diversity_link = #Species

| synonyms = Catagramma Boisduval, 1836

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Callicore is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical realm. This genus, like some related ones, was formerly lumped together as the paraphyletic Catagramma assemblage.

Species in this genus are commonly called eighty-eights or numberwings like the related genera Diaethria and Perisama, in reference to the characteristic patterns on the hindwing undersides of many. In Callicore, the pattern consists of bluish dots surrounded by black and looks more like "αB" or "8°", though some members of this genus have a completely different arrangement of dots. The forewing undersides vary little between species, being black with one or two broad orange-yellow bands in the basal part and one thin and one very faint yellowish band near the apex.

C. hydarnis is listed as an endangered species in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups:[http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/biblidinae/callicore/ "Callicore Hübner, [1819]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

The atacama species group:

The cyllene species group: [see Catagramma]

The cynosura species group:

The hydarnis species group: [see Catagramma]

The hydaspes species group: [part See Catagramma]

The {{not a typo|pitheas}} species group:

The texa species group:

The tolima species group: [see Catagramma]

Else: See Catagramma for:

Gallery

File:Callicoreastarte.jpg|Astarte eighty-eight,
C. astarte, upperside

File:Callicoreaeginasalamis.jpg|Aegina numberwing,
C. l. salamis, underside

File:Callicoreeunomia.jpg|Eunomia eighty-eight,
C. eunomia, underside

File:Pastazzauns.jpg|Superb numberwing,
C. e. pastazza, underside

File:NymphalidOslo.jpg|Cynosura eighty-eight,
C. cynosura, underside

Callicore pygas, Iguazu Falls Brazil.jpg|Pygas eighty-eight,
(C. pygas)
Iguazu Falls, Brazil

References

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  • Casagrande, M. M., Mielke, O. H. H., & Brown, K. S., Jr. (1998). Butterflies (Lepidoptera) considered as threatened in Minas Gerais, Brazil (in Portuguese). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15(1), 241-259.
  • Garwood, K. M., Lehman, Carter, W., & Carter, G. (2007). Butterflies of Southern Amazonia. Mission, Texas: Neotropical Butterflies.
  • Lamas, G., ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.