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Colobura Billberg, 1820

Colobura Billberg, 1820; Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.: 79, TS: Papilio dirce Linnaeus
Gynoecia Doubleday, 1844; List. lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. 1: 88, TS: Papilio dirce Linnaeus

= ; [NL4A, 249]

Colobura, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Gynoecia ; Erichson, 1848, in Schomburgk, Reisen Britisch-Guiana 3: 597
Gynaecia ; Westwood, 1850, (missp.); Godman & Salvin, [1883], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 265 (missp.); Hemming, 1967, Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl.: 203 (missp.)
Colobura ; Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001, Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 185-196
Colobura (Nymphalini) ; [Wahlberg]
Colobura (Coeini) ; [EcuL]; [NL4A, 249]

Colobura dirce (Linnaeus, 1758)

-. See [About maps] Papilio dirce Linnaeus, 1758; , TL: [French Guiana]
Colobura dirce dirce, Listing of Mexican Butterflies [ILMB]
Colobura dirce dirce, Butterflies of America [BOA]
Colobura dirce, NSG Voucher Specimen [Wahlberg]
Gynaecia[sic] dirce ; Godman & Salvin, [1883], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 265; Godman & Salvin, [1901], Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 689
Colobura dirce ; Brown & Mielke, 1967, J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2): 104; [BCR: 133, pl. 21]; [BOW: pl. 35, f. 3]; [EcuL]; [NL4A, #2008]

517x455 (~32Kb) Belize, Central America, Photo © John Shuey

Larva on Cecropia [BCR], Cecropia pachystachia, C. peltata, C. mexicana, C. hololeuca, C. obtusa Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001, Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 192, 193

C. d. dirce

Mexico - Ecuador, Venezuela - Eucuador - Bolivia, N.Paraguay, Argenina, Brazil, Guianas, Trinidad Papilio dirco[sic] Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 477 (missp.), TL: "In Calidis regionibus" [South America, Surinam?]
Papilio bates Linnaeus, 1758; Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 485, TL: French Guiana

= ; [NL4A, #2008a]

Papilio dirceoides Sepp, [1852]; Surinaam. Vlinders 3 (38): 321, pl. 149, TL: French Guiana

= ; [NL4A, #2008a]

Cynthia cassavae Fabricius, 1938; in Bryk, Systema Glossatorum: 105 (repl. dirce Linnaeus, 1758)

= ; [NL4A, #2008a]

Colobura dirce dirce ; Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001, Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 186, f. 2A-B, 4, 7A-B; [NL4A, #2008a]

C. d. wolcotti Comstock, 1942

Puerto Rico, Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola Colobura dirce wolcotti Comstock, 1942; J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 50: 286, TL: Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
Colobura dirce clementi Comstock, 1942; J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 50: 284, TL: Santiago de Cuba, Cuba

= ; [NL4A, #2008b]

Colobura dirce avinoffi Comstock, 1942; J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 50: 285, TL: Bath, St. Thomas, Jamica

= ; [NL4A, #2008b]

Colobura dirce wolcotti ; Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001, Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 190; [NL4A, #2008b]

Colobura annulata Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001

Mexico - Ecuador, Venezuela - Ecuador - Bolivia, Amazon, Guianas, Trinidad. See [About maps] Colobura annulata Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001; Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 190, f. 3A-B, 5A-B, 6, 8A-C, TL: French Guiana, Cayenne
Colobura annulata ; [NL4A, #2007]

Larva on Cecropia, Cecropia eximia, C. virgusa, C. longipes, C. peltata, Carica papaya? Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001, Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 192, 193

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References:

[About maps]

Warning! The maps are automatically generated from the textual information, and the process does not always produce acceptable result; See about maps for more info.

[BCA]

electronic; BIOLOGIA CENTRALI-AMERICANA

[BCR]

DeVries, Philip J.; The Butterflies of Costa Rica; Vol. I: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae

[BOA]

Interactive Listing of American Butterflies; Listado Interactivo de la Mariposas Americanas; Butterflies of America

[BOW]

Lewis, H. L., 1974; Butterflies of the World; ISBN 0 245 52097 X

[EcuL]

Tommaso & Luigi Racheli, 2001; An annotated list of Ecuadorian Butterflies (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae, Pieridae, Nymphalidae); Fragmenta entomologica 33 (2): 213-380

[ILMB]

Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

[JLS]

Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society; the original J. Lep. Soc. articles

[John Shuey]

e-mail: jshuey at tnc.org; Director of Conservation Science; Indiana Office of The Nature Conservancy; http://www.nature.org

[LAMAS-NEO]

Gerardo Lamas; Bibliography of butterflies; An Annocated Bibliography of the Neotropical Butterflies and Skipper (Lepididoptera: Papilionoidea and Hesperioidea); Revised Electronic Edition (2007)

[NL4A]

Gerardo Lamas, 2004; Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera; Checklist: Part 4A; Hesperioidea - Papilionoidea

[Wahlberg]

Niklas Wahlberg; The NSG's voucher specimen database; Nymphalidae Systematics Group

Some related literature:

Brown & Mielke, 1967

Lepidoptera of the Central Brazil Plateau. I. Preliminary list of Rhopalocera J. Lep. Soc. 21 (2): 77-106

Comstock, 1942

Nymphalidae of the Antilles (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) J. N.Y. Ent. Soc. 50: 283-288

Erichson, 1848

Reisen in British Guiana ... 1840-1844 in Schomburgk, Reisen Britisch-Guiana 3: 533-617

Fabricius, 1938

Systema Glossatorum Secundum Ordines, Genera, Species Adiectis Synonymi Locis, Observationibus, Descriptionibus in Bryk, Systema Glossatorum: [i]-xii, 13-112

Godman & Salvin, [1883]

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. Vol. 1. (1879-1886) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 1: 1-487, 3: pl. 1-24,24a,25-112

Godman & Salvin, [1901]

Biologia Centrali-Americana. Rhopalocera. (1887-1901) Biol. centr.-amer., Lep. Rhop. 2: 1-782, 3: pl. 1-112

Hemming, 1967

Generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. (Ent.), Suppl.: -

Linnaeus, 1758

Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Secundum Clases, Ordines, Genera, Species, cum Characteribus, Differentiis, Symonymis, Locis. Tomis I. 10th Edition Syst. Nat. (Edn 10) 1 : 1-338, : 339-824

Sepp, [1852]

Natuurlijke Historie van Surinaamsche Vlinders, naar het leven geteekend. Papillons de Surinam dessinés d'après nature Surinaam. Vlinders 1 (1): 1-16, pl. 1-4 ([1829]), 1 (2): 17-24, pl. 5-8 ([1829]), 1 (3): 25-32, pl. 9-12 ([1830]), 1 (4): 33-40, pl. 13-16 ([1830]), 1 (5): 41-48, pl. 17-20 ([1832]), 1 (6): 49-56, pl. 21-24 ([1832-1840]), 1 (7): 57-64, pl. 25-28 ([1832-1840]), 1 (8): 65-72, pl. 29-32 ([1840]), 1 (9): 73-80, pl. 33-36 ([1841]), 1 (10): 81-88, pl. 37-40 ([1841]), 1 (11): 89-96, pl. 41-44 ([1842]), 1 (12): 97-104, pl. 45-48 ([1842]), 1 (13): i-viii, 105-108, pl. 49-50 ([1843]), 2 (13): 109-112, pl. 51-52 ([1843]), 2 (14): 113-120, pl. 53-56 ([1843]), 2 (15): 121-128, pl. 57-60 ([1844]), 2 (16): 129-136, pl. 61-64 ([1844]), 2 (17): 137-144, pl. 65-68 ([1845]), 2 (18): 145-152, pl. 69-72 ([1845]), 2 (19): 169-176, pl. 73-76 ([1845]), 2 (20): 177-184, pl. 77-80 ([1846]), 2 (21): 185-192, pl. 81-84 ([1847]), 2 (22): 193-200, pl. 85-88 ([1846]), 2 (23): 201-208, pl. 89-92 ([1847]), 2 (24): 209-216, pl. 93-96 ([1847]), 2 (25): i-iv, 217-224, pl. 97-100 ([1847]) , 3 (26): 225-232, pl. 101-104 ([1848]), 3 (27): 233-240, pl. 105-108 ([1848]), 3 (28): 241-248, pl. 109-112 ([1848]), 3 (29): 249-256, pl. 113-116 ([1849]), 3 (30): 257-264, pl. 117-120 ([1849]), 3 (31): 265-272, pl. 121-124 ([1850]), 3 (32): 273-280, pl. 125-128 ([1850]), 3 (33): 281-288, pl. 129-132 ([1851]), 3 (34): 289-296, pl. 133-136 ([1851]), 3 (35): 297-304, pl. 137-140 ([1851]), 3 (36): 305-312, pl. 141-144 ([1851]), 3 (37): 313-320, pl. 145-148 ([1852]), 3 (38): i-viii, 321-328, pl. 149-152 ([1852])

Willmott, Constantino & Hall, 2001

A review of Colobura (Lepidoptera: Nymhalidae) with comments on larvar and adult ecology and descriptions of a sibling species Ann. Entom. Soc. Am. 94: 185-196

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