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Diaethria clymena

Cramer´s Eighty-eight


Diaethria clymena

Ochenta y Ocho

Family: Nymphalidae
Order: Lepidoptera
Class: Insecta
Phylum / Division: Arthropoda
Kingdom: Animalia

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Diaethria clymena, the Cramer´s eighty-eight, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. It was described to science by Pieter Cramer, in a fascicle of De uitlandsche Kapellen, 1775.

The wingspan is about .

The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.

Subspecies: Listed alphabetically.
  • D. c. aurelia (Guenée, 1872)
  • D. c. beleses (Godman & Salvin, 1889) (Panama)
  • D. c. bourcieri (Guenée, 1872) (Ecuador)
  • D. c. clymena (Guyana, Brazil (Amazonas))
  • D. c. colombiana (Viette, 1958) (Colombia)
  • D. c. consobrina (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Colombia, Venezuela)
  • D. c. dodone (Guenée, 1872) (Colombia)
  • D. c. janeira (C. Felder, 1862) (Brazil (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo), Paraguay)
  • D. c. juani Neild, 1996 (Venezuela, Trinidad)
  • D. c. marchalii (Guérin-Méneville, [1844]) (Nicaragua to Colombia)
  • D. c. meridionalis (Bates, 1864) (Brazil (Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina))
  • D. c. peruviana (Guenée, 1872) (Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador)
  • D. c. seropina (Röber, 1924) (Brazil (Pará))

Source: Wikipedia, article Diaethria clymena. Content adapted from Wikipedia, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Accessed on 15/07/2026.





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Photography ID: 149058
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Puerto leoni
Misiones
Argentina
05/04/2016
Sergio Gabriel Borrillo



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Record IDDateExact timeCountryProvince / departmentPlaceFilmedPhotographedRecorded vocalObservedHeardWounded or deadNumber of individualsUser or BibliographyDetail
43207404/05/2016ArgentinaMisionesPuerto leoniSergio Gabriel Borrillo
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Please use the following reference when citing this species account.
EcoRegistros. 2026. Cramer´s Eighty-eight (Diaethria clymena) – Species account. Accessed from www.ecoregistros.org on 18/09/2026.