Hamadryas amphinome
Appearance
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Red cracker | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Hamadryas |
Species: | H. amphinome
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Binomial name | |
Hamadryas amphinome (Linnaeus, 1767)
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Hamadryas amphinome, the red cracker, is a species of cracker butterfly in the family Nymphalidae, native to regions of North and South America.
Distribution
[edit]It is found from Mexico, through the Caribbean and Central America, to the Amazon basin including in Brazil, Colombia, Guianas, Peru, and Bolivia, and south into Argentina.
Subspecies
[edit]Subspecies of Hamadryas amphinome, listed alphabetically, include:[1]
- Hamadryas amphinome amphinome (Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil)
- Hamadryas amphinome fumosa (Colombia)
- Hamadryas amphinome mazai (Mexico)
- Hamadryas amphinome mexicana (Mexico to Colombia)
- Hamadryas amphinome mexicana (Costa Rica )
- most abundant on the Pacific slope of Costa Rica
Food source
[edit]The larvae feed on Dalechampia scandens.
References
[edit]- ^ Hamadryas amphinome at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Categories:
- Hamadryas (butterfly)
- Lepidoptera of Mexico
- Butterflies of Central America
- Butterflies of the Caribbean
- Nymphalidae of South America
- Butterflies of Cuba
- Lepidoptera of Brazil
- Lepidoptera of Venezuela
- Lepidoptera of Argentina
- Lepidoptera of Bolivia
- Lepidoptera of Colombia
- Fauna of the Amazon
- Butterflies described in 1767
- Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus
- Biblidinae stubs