Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Biblidinae
Tribe: Callicorini
Genus: Callicore - Hübner, 1819
Species: Callicore pitheas -Latreille, 1811
This butterfly has a wing expansion of 50mm and is distributed in Panamá, Colombia, Venezuela and part of Brasil Amazonian. In Venezuela it can find the North Central coast mountain range, often over 560 m.a.s.l. It has very a rapid flight and is very nervous and difficult to found posed.
The upper surface of the wings in the male is brown with marginal and submarginal longitudinal bands of black. In the forewing has a spot to oblique, yellow-orange. A white middle band runs across both wings. In the anal angle is a small patch of reddish yellow color. The distal margin of the wings is slightly indented.
The underside of the wings, has the same white band of the upper face. The other spots are seen with smooth coloration.
The female are larger than males and have the same color on the wing upper surface. And on the ventral surface of the wings are lighter colored.
