Marpesia (butterfly)

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Kingdom Animalia Subfamily Cyrestinae Phylum Arthropoda Rank Genus		Family Nymphalidae Scientific name Marpesia Higher classification Nymphalidae Order Butterflies and moths

Similar Butterfly, Butterflies and moths, Marpesia petreus, Insect, Nymphalidae

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:

Marpesia berania (Hewitson, 1852) – amber daggerwing (Mexico, Colombia Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Honduras)

Marpesia chiron (Fabricius, 1775) – many-banded daggerwing (southern United States, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico to Ecuador, Suriname)

Marpesia corinna (Latreille, [1813]) – Corinna daggerwing (Colombia, Peru)

Marpesia corita (Westwood, 1850) – orange-banded daggerwing (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras)

Marpesia crethon (Fabricius, 1776) – Crethon daggerwing (Suriname, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela)

Marpesia egina (Bates, 1865) – Egina daggerwing (Brazil (Amazonas), Peru)

Marpesia eleuchea Hübner, 1818 – Antillean daggerwing (Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Antilles)

Marpesia furcula (Fabricius, 1793) – sunset daggerwing (Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas), Argentina)

Marpesia harmonia (Klug, 1836) – pale daggerwing or Harmonia daggerwing (Mexico)

Marpesia livius (Kirby, 1871) – Livius daggerwing (Mexico to Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador)

Marpesia marcella (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – pansy daggerwing (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru)

Marpesia merops (Doyère, [1840]) – dappled daggerwing (Guatemala to Bolivia)

Marpesia orsilochus (Fabricius, 1776) – Orsilochus daggerwing (Suriname, Brazil)

Marpesia petreus (Cramer, [1776]) – ruddy daggerwing (United States (Texas, Florida), Guadelope, Mexico)

Marpesia themistocles (Fabricius, 1793) – Norica daggerwing (Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas))

Marpesia tutelina (Hewitson, 1852) – Tutelina daggerwing (Brazil (Amazonas))

Marpesia zerynthia Hübner, [1823] – waiter daggerwing (United States (Texas), Colombia, Peru, Ecuador Brazil (Bahia))

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