Colobura

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Nymphalini
Genus: Colobura
Species: C. annulata – C. dirce
Name

Colobura Billberg, 1820
Homonyms

Colobura Blanchard, 1851 (junior homonym) = Neocolobura Monné, 2005

References

Willmott, K.R., Constantino, L.M. & Hall, J.P.W. 2001. A review of Colobura (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) with comments on larval and adult ecology and description of a sibling species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94: 185–196. Full article (PDF).

Colobura is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.
Species

There are two recognised species:[1]

Colobura dirce (Linnaeus, 1758) – zebra mosaic
Colobura annulata Willmot, Constantino & Hall, 2001 – new beauty

Colobura dirce - MHNT

References

"Colobura Billberg, 1820" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms