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Teucer owl butterfly
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Caligo
Species:
C. teucer
Binomial name
Caligo teucer
(Linnaeus, 1758)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio teucer Linnaeus, 1758
  • Caligo teucra Hübner, [1819]
  • Caligo musae Fabricius, 1938
  • Caligo teucer phoroneus Fruhstorfer, 1907
  • Caligo teucer joasa Joicey & Kaye, 1917

Caligo teucer, the Teucer owl butterfly[2] is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is found from Colombia and Venezuela to Bolivia and Paraguay. The habitat consists of rainforests and cloudforests at altitudes ranging from 400 to 1,400 meters.[2]

The wingspan is about 100 mm.[3]

The larvae feed on Heliconia and Musa species.

  1. ^ Caligo teucer, at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ a b Caligo teucer, Learn about Butterflies
  3. ^ "Lepidoptera Breeders Association". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08. Retrieved 2014-01-08.

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