All Diaethria species are commonly called eighty-eights because of the patterns on the hindwing undersides.

The uppersides is black, marked on the forewings with a diagonal band of metallic blue or green.

The colour is repeated on the hindwings in the form of a submarginal band.

This common species occurs from Panama to Bolivia at elevations of 200–1700 m, in rain- and cloudforests where the larval foodplant Trema (Cannabaceae) grows.

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