Calydna (butterfly)

Calydna
Calydna sp. Coll. Museum Wiesbaden
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Riodinidae
Subfamily:	Riodininae
Genus:	Calydna Doubleday, 1847
Species
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Calydna is a genus in the family Riodinidae. They are resident in the Neotropics.

Species of Calydna feed, as larvae on Olacaceae, Euphorbiaceae.Reported larva foodplants are Schoepfia, Ximenia, Conceveiba.

Species list

• Calydna cabira Hewitson, 1854 Guyane, Brazil.
• Calydna caieta Hewitson, 1854Guyane , Brazil.
• Calydna calamisa Hewitson, 1854 Brazil.
• Calydna candace Hewitson, 1859 Brazil.
• Calydna carneia Hewitson, 1859 Brazil
• Calydna catana Hewitson, 1859 Venezuela , Brazil.
• Calydna cea Hewitson, 1859 Brazil , Peru.
• Calydna charila Hewitson, 1854 Brazil, Peru.
• Calydna fissilisima Hall, 2002 Brazil
• Calydna hiria (Godart, [1824]) Brazil, Peru.
• Calydna jeannea Hall, 2002 Peru.
• Calydna lusca (Geyer, [1835]) Mexico , Peru.
• Calydna micra Bates, 1868 Brazil
• Calydna nicolayi Hall, 2002 Peru.
• Calydna stolata Brévignon, 1998 Guyane
• Calydna thersander (Stoll, [1780]) Guyane, Guyana, Surinam , Brazil.
• Calydna sturnula (Geyer, 1837) Mexico , Brazil.
• Calydna venusta Godman & Salvin, [1886] Mexico, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyane, Guyana, Surinam , Brazil.

Source

• Calydna

External links

• images representing Calydna at Encyclopedia of Life
• 51112 images representing Calydna at Consortium for the Barcode of Life