Anartia
| Anartia | |
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| White peacock (Anartia jatrophae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Victorinini |
| Genus: | Anartia Hübner, 1819 |
| Type species | |
| Papilio jatrophae | |
| Species | |
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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.[1]
- Anartia amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown peacock or scarlet peacock
- Anartia chrysopelea Hübner, [1831] – Cuban peacock or Caribbean peacock
- Anartia fatima (Fabricius, 1793) – banded peacock or Fatima
- Anartia jatrophae (Linnaeus, 1763) – white peacock or masote
- Anartia lytrea (Godart, 1819) – Godart's peacock or Hispaniolan peacock
Anartia amathea - MHNT
Anartia jatrophae - MHNT
References[]
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.
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