Marpesia (butterfly)

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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
  • Marpesia chiron (Fabricius, 1775) – Many-banded Daggerwing
  • Marpesia corinna (Latreille, [1813]) – Corinna Daggerwing
  • Marpesia corita (Westwood, 1850) – Orange-banded Daggerwing
  • Marpesia crethon (Fabricius, 1776) – Crethon Daggerwing
  • Marpesia egina (Bates, 1865) – Egina Daggerwing
  • Marpesia eleuchea Hübner, 1818 – Antillean Daggerwing
  • Marpesia furcula (Fabricius, 1793) – Sunset Daggerwing
  • Marpesia harmonia (Klug, 1836) – Pale Daggerwing or Harmonia Daggerwing
  • Marpesia livius (Kirby, 1871) – Livius Daggerwing
  • Marpesia marcella (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – Pansy Daggerwing
  • Marpesia merops (Doyère, [1840]) – Dappled Daggerwing
  • Marpesia orsilochus (Fabricius, 1776) – Orsilochus Daggerwing
  • Marpesia petreus (Cramer, [1776]) – Ruddy Daggerwing
  • Marpesia themistocles (Fabricius, 1793) – Norica Daggerwing
  • Marpesia tutelina (Hewitson, 1852) – Tutelina Daggerwing
  • Marpesia zerynthia Hübner, [1823] – Waiter Daggerwing

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Marpesia, funet.fi
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Learn About Butterflies

External links

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


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