Caligo oedipus

Caligo oedipus, the boomerang owl, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. The species can be found from Central America to Colombia.^[1]

Boomerang owl
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Caligo
Species:	C. oedipus
Binomial name
Caligo oedipus Stichel, 1903
Synonyms
Caligo oedipus ab. nocturnus Stichel, 1903 Caligo oileus hyposchesis Dyar, 1914

Subspecies

• C. o. fruhstorferi Stichel, 1904
• C. o. oedipus