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Diaethria clymena
| Diaethria clymena | |
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| Dorsal view | |
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| D. c. juani (ventral view), Trinidad | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Diaethria |
| Species: | D. clymena
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| Binomial name | |
| Diaethria clymena (Cramer, [1775])
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| Subspecies | |
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13, see text | |
| Synonyms | |
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Diaethria clymena, the Cramer's eighty-eight, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found from Mexico to Peru and Brazil. It was described to science by Pieter Cramer, in a fascicle of De uitlandsche Kapellen, 1775.
The wingspan is about 30–40 millimetres (1.2–1.6 in).
The larvae feed on Trema lamarckiana, Trema micrantha, and Theobroma.
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