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Calisto tasajera

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Species of butterfly

Calisto tasajera
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Calisto
Species: C. tasajera
Binomial name
Calisto tasajera
González, Schwartz & Wetherbee, 1991

Calisto tasajera is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is endemic to Hispaniola, where it is found in the highlands of the Cordillera Central.

The larvae feed on Danthonia domingenisis.

References

  1. "Calisto Hübner, 1823" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. "Darwin's butterflies"? DNA barcoding and the radiation of the endemic Caribbean butterfly genus Calisto (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Satyrinae)
Taxon identifiers
Calisto tasajera


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