Chlosyne whitneyi damoetas, the rockslide checkerspot, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae that is found in North America, from British Columbia and Alberta[2] to Wyoming[3] and Colorado.[1]
| Rockslide checkerspot | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Chlosyne |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. w. damoetas
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| Trinomial name | |
| Chlosyne whitneyi damoetas (Skinner, 1902)[1]
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Life cycle
editThe caterpillar of this species feeds on Erigeron leiomerus and Solidago multiradiata.[4]
References
edit- ^ a b "Chlosyne d. damoetas (Skinner, 1902)". butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
- ^ "Chlosyne damoetas windriver Scot". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
- ^ "Chlosyne damoetas altalus Scott, 1998". www.butterfliesofamerica.com. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
- ^ "Chlosyne". ftp.funet.fi. Retrieved 2022-04-30.
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