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
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)

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 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