| Eunica | |
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| Male Eunica mygdonia (museum specimen) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Epicaliini |
| Genus: | Eunica Hübner, [1819] |
| Type species | |
| Papilio monima Stoll, 1782 | |
| Diversity | |
| About 40 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.
The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically: [1] [2] [3]
Papilio is a genus in the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae, as well as the only representative of the tribe Papilionini. The word papilio is Latin for butterfly.
Biblidinae is the name for a subfamily of nymphalid butterflies that includes the tropical brushfoots. This subfamily was sometimes merged within the Limenitidinae, but they are now recognized as quite distinct lineages. In older literature, this subfamily is sometimes called Eurytelinae.
Libythea is a widespread genus of nymphalid butterflies commonly called beaks or snouts. They are strong fliers and may even be migratory.
Doxocopa is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae, subfamily Apaturinae. It includes the following species:
Diaethria is a brush-footed butterfly genus found in the Neotropical realm, ranging from Mexico to Paraguay.
Memphis, described by Jacob Hübner in 1819, is a Neotropical nymphalid butterfly genus in the subfamily Charaxinae.
Dismorphia is a genus of butterflies in the subfamily Dismorphiinae.
Adelpha is a genus of brush-footed butterflies found from the southern United States and Mexico to South America. They are commonly known as sisters, due to the white markings on their wings, which resemble a nun's habit. This genus is sometimes included with the admiral butterflies (Limenitis).
Dynamine is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in South America.
Pteronymia is a genus of clearwing (ithomiine) butterflies, named by Arthur Gardiner Butler and Herbert Druce in 1872. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.