Marpesia furcula

Marpesia furcula
M. f. iole, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
M. f. oechalia, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Marpesia
Species:	M. furcula
Binomial name
Marpesia furcula (Fabricius, 1793) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio furculaFabricius, 1793 Papilio ioleDrury, 1782 Papilio joleStoll, 1790 (preocc. Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) Marpesia zosteriaHübner, [1819] Timetes furcula oechaliaWestwood, 1850 Timetes hermioneC. & R. Felder, 1861 Timetes heraldicusBates, 1865 Timetes funestisButler, 1869 Megalura iole argentinaMartin, [1923] Megalura hermione peruuraBryk, 1953

Marpesia furcula, the sunset daggerwing or glossy daggerwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Central and South America, from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Argentina. The habitat consists of evergreen rainforests at altitudes up to 1,400 meters. ^[2]

Subspecies

• Marpesia furcula furcula (Jamaica)
• Marpesia furcula oechalia(Westwood, 1850) (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas, Argentina)
• Marpesia furcula violetta(Hall, 1929) (western Ecuador)

References

1. "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes ^[usurped]