Calisto tasajera is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Hispaniola,[1] where it is found in the highlands of the Cordillera Central.
Calisto tasajera | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Calisto |
Species: | C. tasajera
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Binomial name | |
Calisto tasajera González, Schwartz & Wetherbee, 1991
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The larvae feed on Danthonia domingenisis.[2]
References
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- ^ "Calisto Hübner, 1823" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ "Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)