Lycorea halia cleobaea
{{Short description|Subspecies of butterfly}}
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| image = Lycoreacleobaea.jpg
| image_caption =
| genus = Lycorea
| species = halia
| subspecies = cleobaea
| authority = (Godart, 1819)
| synonyms =
- Heliconia cleobaea Godart, 1819
- Lycorea halia domingensis Niepelt, 1927
}}
Lycorea halia cleobaea, the tropical milkweed butterfly, is a subspecies of Lycorea halia, also called the tropical milkweed butterfly, a nymphalid butterfly in the Danainae subfamily. It is endemic to the island of Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean.{{cite journal|last1=Van-Wright|first1=R.I.|last2=Ackery|first2=P.R.|last3=Turner|first3=T.|title=Anetia Jaegeri, Danaus Cleophile and Lycoriea cleobaea from Jamaica (Nymphalide: Danaine)|journal=Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society|date=1992|volume=46|issue=4|pages=273–279}}{{cite web| title = Lycorea Doubleday, [1847] | url = http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/danainae/lycorea/ |author=Markku Savela |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |publisher=FUNET| accessdate = February 14, 2017 }} Its habitat is the tropical rainforest.
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Category:Insects of the Dominican Republic