Anartia

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Anartia
White peacock
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Division: Rhopalocera Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Nymphalidae Subfamily: Nymphalinae Tribe: Victorini Genus: Anartia (Hübner, 1831)
Species
Anartia amathea Anartia chrysopelea Anartia fatima Anartia jatrophae Anartia lytrea

Anartia is a genre of butterflies in family Nymphalidae, and subfamily Nymphalinae, found in tropical and subtropical areas in the Americas. The butterflies are all known as "peacocks", although the common European peacock is not in the same genus.

[edit] List of species

• Anartia amathea, Brown (or Scarlet) peacock (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Anartia chrysopelea, Cuban peacock (Hübner, 1831)
• Anartia fatima, Banded peacock, or Fatima (Fabricius, 1793)
• Anartia jatrophae White peacock (Linnaeus, 1763)
• Anartia lytrea, Godart's peacock (Godart, 1819)

[edit] External links

• A molecular phylogeny of the neotropical butterfly genus Anartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Michael J. Blum, Eldredge Bermingham, and Kanchon Dasmahapatra
• Anartia at funet.fi