Junonia evarete

West Indian buckeye

J. e. zonalis dorsal side – Jamaica

J. e. evarete ventral side – Tobago
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Junonia
Species:	J. evarete
Binomial name
*Junonia evarete* (Cramer, [1779])
Synonyms
Papilio lavinia Cramer, 1775 Papilio cortes Herbst, 1796 Papilio esra Fabricius, 1798 Junonia divaricata C. Felder & R. Felder, 1867 Junonia lavinia arenosa W.T.M. Forbes, [1929] and others

Junonia evarete, the West Indian buckeye, mangrove buckeye or tropical buckeye, is a Neotropical nymphalid butterfly found from Florida and the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, to tropical and subtropical South America. The type locality is Suriname, and numerous subspecies have been described. The synonymy is extensive, and older literature must be used with caution. The butterfly is easily confused with Junonia genoveva, which is also known as the mangrove buckeye.^[1]

References

↑ R. R. Askew and P. A. van B. Stafford, Butterflies of the Cayman Islands (Apollo Books, Stenstrup 2008) ISBN 978-87-88757-85-9, pp. 46-51

"Junonia Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

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