Marpesia (butterfly)

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Marpesia
Purple-stained daggerwing (Marpesia marcella valetta).jpg
Purple-stained daggerwing
Marpesia marcella valetta, Panama
Marpesia zerynthia.jpg
Marpesia zerynthia in the Venezuelan Andes
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Cyrestinae
Genus: Marpesia
Hübner, 1818 [1]
Species

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Synonyms
  • AthenaHübner, [1819]
  • EuglyphusBillberg, 1820
  • MariusSwainson, [1830]
  • PetreusSwainson, [1833]
  • MegaluraBlanchard, 1840
  • TimetesDoubleday, 1844
  • TymetesDoyère, [1840]
  • TymetesBoisduval, [1846]
  • TimetesBoisduval, 1870 (preocc. TimetesDoubleday, 1844)
  • EumargaretaGrote, 1898

Marpesia is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical and Nearctic realms.

Species

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

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References

  1. 1 2 "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  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


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