Anartia
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Anartia | |
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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 | |
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[edit]
Listed alphabetically.[1]
Image | Scientific name | Common Name | Distribution |
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Anartia amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) | brown peacock or scarlet peacock | Panama to Argentina; Grenada, Barbados and Antigua | |
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Anartia chrysopelea Hübner, [1831] | Cuban peacock or Caribbean peacock | Cuba |
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Anartia fatima (Fabricius, 1793) | banded peacock or Fatima | south Texas, Mexico, and Central America |
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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 |
References[edit]
External links[edit]
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.Error: "Q1758756" is not a valid Wikidata entity ID.
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