Anartia

Anartia
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Victorinini
Genus:	Anartia Hübner, 1819
Type species
Papilio jatrophae (Linnaeus, 1763)
Species
Five, see text

Anartia is a genus of butterflies in family Nymphalidae, and subfamily Nymphalinae, found in tropical and subtropical areas in the Americas. The butterflies are known as peacocks, although the common European peacock (Aglais io) is not in the same genus.

Species

Listed alphabetically.

Image	Scientific name	Common Name	Distribution
	Anartia amathea (Linnaeus, 1758)	brown peacock or scarlet peacock	Panama to Argentina; Grenada, Barbados and Antigua
	Anartia chrysopelea Hübner, [1831]	Cuban peacock or Caribbean peacock	Cuba
	Anartia fatima (Fabricius, 1793)	banded peacock or Fatima	south Texas, Mexico, and Central America
	Anartia jatrophae (Linnaeus, 1763)	white peacock or masote	southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America.
	Anartia lytrea (Godart, 1819)	Godart's peacock or Hispaniolan peacock	Hispaniola and the Swan Islands of Honduras

External links

Media related to Anartia at Wikimedia Commons

• Blum, Michael J; Bermingham, Eldredge; Dasmahapatra, Kanchon (1 January 2003). "A molecular phylogeny of the neotropical butterfly genus Anartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 26 (1): 46–55. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00291-9. Retrieved 27 September 2021.