Caligo oedipus, the boomerang owl, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species can be found from Central America to Colombia.[1]
Boomerang owl | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Caligo |
Species: | C. oedipus
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Binomial name | |
Caligo oedipus Stichel, 1903
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Synonyms | |
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Subspecies
edit- C. o. fruhstorferi Stichel, 1904
- C. o. oedipus
References
edit- ^ "Caligo Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms