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Catoblepia
Sign in to saveCatoblepia is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Larvae feed on bananas and adults feed on rotting fruit.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 20
- With media
- 9
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- YPM, RBINS-SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE, FMNH, NHMUK, USNM
- Recorded in
- Brazil, Panama, French Guiana, Colombia, France, Perú, Peru, Ecuador
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Encyclopedic overview
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Catoblepia is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Larvae feed on bananas and adults feed on rotting fruit.
==Species== Listed alphabetically within groups: The generosa species group: Catoblepia berecynthia (Cramer, [1777]) Catoblepia generosa (Stichel, 1902) The xanthus species group: Catoblepia amphirhoe (Hübner, [1825]) Catoblepia versitincta (Stichel, 1901) Catoblepia xanthicles (Godman & Salvin, [1881]) Catoblepia xanthus (Linnaeus, 1758) Unknown species group: Catoblepia orgetorix (Hewitson, 1870) – Orgetorix owl Catoblepia soranus (Westwood, 1851)
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