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Colobura dirce (Zebra mosaic butterfly)

Synonyms: Colobura dircoides; Gynaecia bates; Gynaecia dirce; Papilio dirce

Wikipedia Abstract

The Dirce Beauty, also known as the Mosaic or Zebra Mosaic, (Colobura dirce) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Central America and northern South America. The length of the fore-wings is about 33 mm. The larvae feed on Cecropia species. \n* Male, topside, MHNT \n* Male, underside, MHNT
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Infraspecies

Colobura dirce avinoffi
Colobura dirce clementi
Colobura dirce dirce
Colobura dirce wolcotti

Prey / Diet

Cabralea canjerana[1]
Cassia fistula (Pudding-pipe Tree)[1]
Cecropia obtusifolia (guarumo)[2]
Cecropia pachystachya (Ambay pumpwood)[1]
Cecropia polystachya (Trumpet tree)[2]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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