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Anthanassa frisia (Cuban Crescentspot)

Synonyms: Anthanassa gyges; Phyciodes frisia

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cuban Crescentspot, Cuban Checkerspot, or Cuban Crescent (Anthanassa frisia) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. Subspecies tulcis is known by the common names Pale-banded Crescent or Tulcis Crescent, it is treated as a species by some authors. The nominate subspecies is found in the West Indies and southern Florida, with strays to northern Florida. Subspecies tulcis is found from Argentina north through Central America and Mexico to southern Texas, strays to west Texas and southern Arizona. Other subspecies are resident to South America.
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Infraspecies

Prey / Diet

Dicliptera brachiata (branched foldwing)[1]
Dicliptera peruviana (looseflower waterwillow)[1]
Dicliptera sexangularis (sixangle foldwing)[1]
Drypetes lateriflora (guiana plum)[2]
Phlogacanthus guttatus[2]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0