lunes, 3 de enero de 2011

Colobura dirce (Linnaeus, 1758)




Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Nymphalini
Genus: Colobura
Species: C. dirce

The Dirce Beauty Colobura, also known as Mosaic, (Colobura dirce) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Central America and the Northern parts of South America.

The length of the fore-wings is about 33 mm.

The larvae feed on Cecropia species.