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Callicore
	Hesperis eighty-eight (C. hesperis); upperside of museum specimen
	Texa eighty-eight (C. texa); underside, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Biblidinae
Tribe:	Callicorini
Genus:	Callicore; Hübner, [1819]
Type species
	Callicore astarte; Cramer, [1779]
Diversity
	See text
Synonyms
	Catagramma Boisduval, 1836

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:^[1]

The atacama species group:

Callicore atacama (Hewitson, 1852) – yellow-banded eighty-eight
Callicore felderi (Hewitson, 1864) – 8-spot numberwing
Callicore hesperis (Guérin, 1844) – hesperis eighty-eight

The cyllene species group: [see Catagramma]

The cynosura species group:

Callicore astarte (Cramer, 1779) – Astarte eighty-eight
Callicore cynosura (Doubleday & Hewitson, 1847) – Cynosura eighty-eight
Callicore excelsior (Hewitson, 1857) – excelsior eighty-eight or superb numberwing
Callicore ines (Hopp, 1922)
Callicore sorana (Godart, 1832) – Sorana eighty-eight

The hydarnis species group: [see Catagramma]

The hydaspes species group: [part See Catagramma]

Callicore brome (Doyère, [1840]) – four-spotted eighty-eight
Callicore lyca (Doubleday, [1847]) – Aegina numberwing
Callicore maronensis (Oberthür, 1916)

The pitheas species group:

Callicore cyclops (Staudinger, 1891)
Callicore pitheas (Latreille, 1811) – two-eyed eighty-eight

The texa species group:

Callicore texa (Hewitson, 1854) – Texa eighty-eight

The tolima species group: [see Catagramma]

Else: See Catagramma for:

Callicore pygas (Godart, [1824]) – pygas eighty-eight (from cyllene)

Callicore eunomia (Hewitson, 1853) – Eunomia eighty-eight (from tolima)
Callicore hystaspes (Fabricius, 1781) – Hystaspes eighty-eight (from tolima)
Callicore tolima (Hewitson, 1851) – blue-and-orange eighty-eight (from tolima)

Callicore hydarnis (Godart, [1824]) (from hydarnis)

Callicore hydaspes (Drury, 1782) – Hydaspes eighty-eight (from hydaspes)

Gallery

Astarte eighty-eight,
C. astarte, upperside
Aegina numberwing,
C. l. salamis, underside
Eunomia eighty-eight,
C. eunomia, underside
Superb numberwing,
C. e. pastazza, underside
Cynosura eighty-eight,
C. cynosura, underside
Pygas eighty-eight,
(C. pygas)
Iguazu Falls, Brazil

References

^ "Callicore Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

Casagrande, M. M., Mielke, O. H. H., & Brown, K. S., Jr. (1998). Butterflies (Lepidoptera) considered as threatened in Minas Gerais, Brazil (in Portuguese). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia, 15(1), 241-259.
Garwood, K. M., Lehman, Carter, W., & Carter, G. (2007). Butterflies of Southern Amazonia. Mission, Texas: Neotropical Butterflies.
Lamas, G., ed. 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.