Callicore

Callicore is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical realm. This genus, like some related ones, was formerly lumped together as the paraphyletic Catagramma assemblage.
Species in this genus are commonly called eighty-eights or numberwings like the related genera Diaethria and Perisama, in reference to the characteristic patterns on the hindwing undersides of many. In Callicore, the pattern consists of bluish dots surrounded by black and looks more like "αB" or "8°", though some members of this genus have a completely different arrangement of dots. The forewing undersides vary little between species, being black with one or two broad orange-yellow bands in the basal part and one thin and one very faint yellowish band near the apex.
C. hydarnis is listed as an endangered species in Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Species

Listed alphabetically within species groups:
The atacama species group:Callicore atacama – yellow-banded eighty-eightCallicore felderi – 8-spot numberwingCallicore hesperis – hesperis eighty-eight
The cyllene species group:
The cynosura species group:Callicore astarte – Astarte eighty-eightCallicore cynosura – Cynosura eighty-eightCallicore excelsior – excelsior eighty-eight or superb numberwingCallicore ines Callicore sorana – Sorana eighty-eight
The hydarnis species group:
The hydaspes species group: Callicore brome – four-spotted eighty-eightCallicore lyca – Aegina numberwingCallicore maronensis
The species group:Callicore cyclops Callicore – two-eyed eighty-eight
The texa species group:Callicore texa – Texa eighty-eight
The tolima species group:
Else: See Catagramma for: Callicore pygas – pygas eighty-eight Callicore eunomia – Eunomia eighty-eight Callicore hystaspes – Hystaspes eighty-eight Callicore tolima – blue-and-orange eighty-eight

Callicore hydarnis Callicore hydaspes – Hydaspes eighty-eight