Appearance
The wingspan is 30–40 mm. Adults are black with a broad, orange or red area on the forewings and a blue area on the hindwings. There is a rare form, ab. ''confluens'', found in central Peru, in which the black markings on the underside are greatly enlarged.
Naming
*''Callicore eunomia eunomia''⤷ ''Callicore eunomia incarnata''
⤷ ''Callicore eunomia valeriae'' Neild, 1996
⤷ ''Callicore eunomia ferrerorum'' Attal, 2000
⤷ ''Callicore eunomia alani'' Attal & Crosson du Cormier, 2003
Renowned lepidopterist William Chapman Hewitson provided the first description of the "eighty-eight" in 1853.
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