Eunica

Eunica

Male Eunica mygdonia (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Biblidinae
Tribe:	Epicaliini
Genus:	Eunica Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Papilio monima Stoll, 1782
Diversity
About 40 species
Synonyms
Amycla Doubleday, 1849 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied) Callianira Doubleday, 1847 (non Péron & Lesueur, 1810: preoccupied) Eunice Geyer, 1832 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied) Evonyme Hübner, 1819 Faunia Poey, 1847 (non Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: preoccupied) Libythina Felder, 1861

Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.

Species

E. concordia, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

E. pusilla, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:^[1]^[2]^[3]

Eunica alcmena (Doubleday, [1847])
Eunica alpais (Godart, [1824])
Eunica amelia (Cramer, [1777])
Eunica amycla (Godart, [1824])
Eunica anna (Cramer, 1780)
Eunica araucana C. & R. Felder, 1862
Eunica bechina (Hewitson, 1852)
Eunica brunnea Salvin, 1869
Eunica caelina (Godart, [1824])
Eunica caralis (Hewitson, 1857)
Eunica carias (Hewitson, 1857)
Eunica chlorochroa (Salvin, 1869) - mira purplewing
Eunica clytia (Hewitson, 1852)
Eunica concordia (Hewitson, 1852) – sandbar purplewing
Eunica cuvierii (Godart, [1819]) – Cuvier's purplewing
Eunica eburnea Fruhstorfer, 1907
Eunica elegans Salvin, 1869
Eunica eurota (Cramer, [1775])
Eunica evelide Bates, 1864
Eunica incognita Jenkins, 1990
Eunica ingens Seitz, 1915
Eunica interphasis Jenkins, 1990
Eunica heraclites Gundlach, 1881
Eunica macris (Godart, [1824])
Eunica maja (Fabricius, 1775)
Eunica malvina Bates, 1864 – Malvina purplewing
Eunica margarita (Godart, [1824])
Eunica marsolia (Godart, [1824])
Eunica mira Godman & Salvin, 1877
Eunica monima (Stoll, [1782]) - dingy purplewing
Eunica mygdonia (Godart, [1824])
Eunica norica (Hewitson, 1852) – Norica purplewing
Eunica olympias C. & R. Felder, 1862
Eunica orphise (Cramer, [1775])
Eunica phasis C. & R. Felder, 1862
Eunica pomona (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) – rounded purplewing
Eunica pusilla Bates, 1864 - pusilla purplewing
Eunica sophonisba (Cramer, [1782]) – glorious purplewing
Eunica sydonia (Godart, [1824]) – Godart's purplewing
Eunica tatila (Herrich-Schaeffer, [1855]) – Florida purplewing
Eunica venusia (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
Eunica veronica Bates, 1864
Eunica viola Bates, 1864
Eunica violetta Staudinger, [1885]
Eunica volumna (Godart, [1824])

References

↑ Epicaliini, Nymphalidae Study Group website
↑ "Eunica Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
↑ Identification Guide - Nymphalidae 1, Butterflies of Amazonia

Jenkins, D. W. 1990. Neotropical Nymphalidae. VIII. Revision of Eunica. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 131:1-175.
Lamas, G. (ed.) 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. (Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea to Papilionoidea). Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.

External links

Eunica, Tree of Life

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