🦋 Family

Nymphalidae

849 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae

Mestra hersilia

Mestra is a small genus of nymphalid butterflies, with one confirmed species ranging from southern North America to South America.

Neptidopsis ophione (Cramer, 1779)

Neptidopsis ophione is a nymphalid butterfly found across much of sub-Saharan Africa, with larvae feeding on Tragia and likely Ricinus plants.

Byblia ilithyia (Drury, 1773)

Byblia ilithyia, the spotted joker, is a nymphalid butterfly found in parts of Africa and Asia.

Byblia anvatara (Boisduval, 1833)

Byblia anvatara, the common joker, is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Eurytela dryope Cramer, 1779

Eurytela dryope is a butterfly with brown wings and a yellow-orange band, split into four geographically distinct subspecies.

Eurytela hiarbas Drury, 1782

Eurytela hiarbas, the pied piper, is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in Sub-Saharan Africa with specific host plants for its larvae.

Epiphile adrasta Hewitson, 1861

Epiphile adrasta, the common banner, is a Nymphalidae tropical brushfoot butterfly found in North America.

Asterope leprieuri (Feisthamel, 1835)

Leprieur's glory (Asterope leprieuri) is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in north-western to central South America, with a 50–60 mm wingspan.

Dynamine dyonis Hübner, 1837

Dynamine dyonis, the blue-eyed sailor, is a North American tropical brushfoot butterfly in the Nymphalidae family.

Diaethria astala (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Diaethria astala, the faded eighty-eight, is a nymphalid butterfly found from Mexico to Colombia whose larvae feed on three plant genera.

Diaethria anna (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)

Diaethria anna, Anna's eighty-eight, is a Central American butterfly with a distinct 88-like marking on its hindwings.

Diaethria neglecta (Salvin, 1869)

Diaethria neglecta is a common butterfly ranging from Panama to Bolivia, with distinct wing markings resembling the numbers 89 or 98.

Diaethria clymena (Cramer, 1775)

Cramer's eighty-eight (Diaethria clymena) is a nymphalid butterfly found from Mexico to Peru and Brazil, with 30–40 mm wingspan.

Diaethria candrena (Godart, 1823)

Diaethria candrena is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in Argentina and Brazil, with a 40–46 mm wingspan, larvae feeding on Celtis.

Diaethria pandama

Diaethria pandama is a butterfly species, described 1848, found from Mexico to Panama, whose larvae feed on Serjania.

Diaethria eluina (Hewitson, 1854)

Diaethria eluina, the eluina eighty-eight, is a nymphalid butterfly found from Peru to Bolivia and Brazil.

Diaethria gabaza (Hewitson, 1854)

Diaethria gabaza is a species of butterfly found across Central and northern South America, whose larvae feed on Serjania plants.

Catagramma cynosura Doubleday

Callicore cynosura (Catagramma cynosura) is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in Amazonia with larvae feeding on Sapindaceae.

Perisama bomplandii

Perisama bomplandii is the largest species of Perisama butterfly found in northern South America, with larvae feeding on Serjania.

Haematera pyrame (Hübner, 1819)

Haematera pyrame is a moth species first described in 1819, with distinct patterned upperside and underside wing coloration.

Catagramma pygas Godart, 1823

Catagramma pygas is a lepidopteran with a ~45 mm wingspan, named for hindwing underside patterns resembling 88.

Myscelia cyananthe (Felder, 1867)

Myscelia cyananthe, the blackened bluewing, is a tropical brushfoot butterfly found in North America.

Myscelia cyaniris (Doubleday)

Myscelia cyaniris is a Neotropical butterfly found in rainforests from Mexico to Peru, with distinct blue patterned wings.

Myscelia ethusa (Boisduval, 1836)

Myscelia ethusa, the Mexican bluewing, is a Nymphalidae butterfly ranging from Colombia north to Texas, with larvae feeding on Dalechampia.

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