Catagramma

Taxobox
name = "Catagramma"

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image_width = 250px
image_caption = "Catagramma hesperis" Guerin-Meneville, 1844. Once in this catchall and now obsolete genus, now in "Callicore"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
subphylum = Hexapoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Biblidinae
genus = "Catagramma"
genus_authority = Boisduval, 1836.
type_species = "Catagramma hydaspes"
type_species_authority = Boisduval, 1836

"Catagramma" is an obsolete genus of Neotropical butterflies, although the name continues to be used in some circles of butterfly collectors. "Catagramma" species are medium sized (around 5 cm wingspan) forest insects, popularly known as "88s" which number can be seen on the underside of the hindwings.

The genus once contained over 100 species. These are now placed in the related genera "Callicore", "Catacore", "Paulogramma", "Diaethria" and "Perisama". This is for technical reasons. Boisduval ignored the generic names of previous authors but was widely followed. Frederick DuCane Godman and Osbert Salvin used the name "Catagramma" in the "Biologia Centrali Americana", establishing it for later authors. All of the "Catagramma" butterflies in the plate shown below are properly placed in "Callicore", under the previously used generic name.

"Catagramma" is, technically, a junior subjective synonym. The type species of "Catagramma" is "Catagramma hydaspes" Boisduval, presently placed in the genus "Callicore" as a probable synonym of "Callicore pygas" (Godart, [1824] ).

References

* Dillon, L. S. (1948) "The tribe Catagrammini (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)." Part I. "The genus Catagramma and allies". Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery Scientific Publications, vii + 1-113, 14 plates.

External Links

* [http://www.pteron-world.com/topics/classfication/nymphalidae/limenitidinae/biblini/catagrammidi/catagrammidi.html Pteron] In Japanese but with binomial names.