Astarte Eighty-eight (Callicore astarte selima)

Botanical Gardens of Brasilia - Brazil.

 

A very tiny ant is biting and pulling the butterfly's proboscis.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Biblidinae

Tribe: Callicorini

Genus: Callicore Hübner, [1819]

Species: C. astarte (Cramer, [1779])

Subspecies: C. a. selima

Trinomial name: Callicore astarte selima

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