‘88’ butterfly: brush-footed butterfly
- Description
- This butterfly was collected in America, and belongs to Woodward’s collection. Butterflies in this genus are commonly known as 88’s due to the figure of eight pattern on the underside of their hind wings.
- Accession Loan No.
- 49/1955/1703
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Common Name
- ‘88’ butterfly: brush-footed butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
- Full Name
- NYMPHALIDAE: Diaethria astala (Guérin-Méneville, 1844): faded eighty-eight
- Dimensions
- wingspan width 40 mm
- Family Group
- Collector / Excavator
- Woodward, Captain George Calthorpe (from the collection of): Fruhstorfer, Mr Hans
- Collection Country
- United States of America
- Collection Area Region
- North America
- Collection Continent
- North America
- Phylum
- ARTHROPODA
- Family
- NYMPHALIDAE
- Genus
- Diaethria
- Species
- astala
