Marpesia (butterfly)

Marpesia

Marpesia zerinthia in Andes mountains, Venezuela.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Cyrestinae
Genus:	Marpesia Hübner, 1818^[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Athena Hübner, [1819] Euglyphus Billberg, 1820 Marius Swainson, [1830] Petreus Swainson, [1833] Megalura Blanchard, 1840 Timetes Doubleday, 1844 Tymetes Doyère, [1840] Tymetes Boisduval, [1846] Timetes Boisduval, 1870 (preocc. Timetes Doubleday, 1844) Eumargareta Grote, 1898

Marpesia is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The members (species) of this genus are found in the Neotropic ecozone and the Nearctic ecozone.

Species

Listed alphabetically.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Marpesia berania (Hewitson, 1852) – Amber Daggerwing Mexico, Colombia Ecuador, Brazil(Amazonas), Peru, Honduras
Marpesia chiron (Fabricius, 1775) – Many-banded Daggerwing south U.S.A Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico to Ecuador, Surinam
Marpesia corinna (Latreille, [1813]) – Corinna Daggerwing Colombia, Peru
Marpesia corita (Westwood, 1850) – Orange-banded Daggerwing Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras
Marpesia crethon (Fabricius, 1776) – Crethon Daggerwing Surinam, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela
Marpesia egina (Bates, 1865) – Egina Daggerwing Brazil (Amazonas), Peru
Marpesia eleuchea Hübner, 1818 – Antillean Daggerwing Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Antilles
Marpesia furcula (Fabricius, 1793) – Sunset Daggerwing Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas), Argentina
Marpesia harmonia (Klug, 1836) – Pale Daggerwing or Harmonia Daggerwing Mexico
Marpesia livius (Kirby, 1871) – Livius Daggerwing Mexico to Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador
Marpesia marcella (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Pansy Daggerwing Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru
Marpesia merops (Doyère, [1840]) – Dappled Daggerwing Guatemala to Bolivia
Marpesia orsilochus (Fabricius, 1776) – Orsilochus Daggerwing Surinam, Brazil
Marpesia petreus (Cramer, [1776]) – Ruddy Daggerwing U.S.A. (Texas, Florida), Mexico, Guadelope, Mexico
Marpesia themistocles (Fabricius, 1793) – Norica Daggerwing Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas)
Marpesia tutelina (Hewitson, 1852) – Tutelina Daggerwing Brazil (Amazonas)
Marpesia zerynthia Hübner, [1823] – Waiter Daggerwing U.S.A. (Texas) Colombia, Peru, Ecuador Brazil (Bahia)

M. chiron
Southern Amazon, Brazil
M. chiron
The Pantanal, Brazil
M. furcala
Southern Amazon, Brazil
M. orsilochus
Southern Amazon, Brazil
M. orsilochus
Southern Amazon, Brazil

References

1 2 Marpesia, funet.fi
↑ Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3. p.117.
↑ Learn About Butterflies

External links

Data related to Marpesia at Wikispecies
Media related to Marpesia at Wikimedia Commons

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