Calisto bruneri

Calisto bruneri
	Male, upperside
	Male, underside
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Calisto
Species:	C. bruneri
Binomial name
	Calisto bruneri; Michener, 1949
Synonyms
	Calisto herophile bruneri Alayo and Hernández 1987;

Calisto bruneri is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Cuba, where it occurs in the western parts of the Nipe-Sagua-Baracoa Mountains. The species inhabits rainforests, wet sclerophyllous low forests and pine forests.

Female, upperside

The length of the forewings is 16–19 mm for males and 18–21 mm for females. Adults have been observed taking nectar from flowers of Scaevola wrightii.[1]

References

Aguila, Rayner Núñez; Edelquis Oliva Plasencia; Pavel F. Matos Maravi; Niklas Wahlberg (2012). "Cuban Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a review based on morphological and DNA data". ZooKeys (165): 57–105. doi:10.3897/zookeys.165.2206. PMC 3272634. PMID 22328857.

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[1] Aguila, Rayner Núñez; Edelquis Oliva Plasencia; Pavel F. Matos Maravi; Niklas Wahlberg (2012). "Cuban Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae), a review based on morphological and DNA data". ZooKeys (165): 57–105. doi:10.3897/zookeys.165.2206. PMC 3272634. PMID 22328857.