Eunica

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Eunica
Eunica mygdonia MHNT ventre.jpg
Male (museum specimen)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Epicaliini
Genus: Eunica
Hübner, [1819]
Type species

Stoll, 1782
Diversity
About 40 species
Synonyms
  • Amycla Doubleday, 1849 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied)
  • Callianira Doubleday, 1847 (non Péron & Lesueur, 1810: preoccupied)
  • Eunice Geyer, 1832 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied)
  • Evonyme Hübner, 1819
  • Faunia Poey, 1847 (non Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: preoccupied)
  • Libythina Felder, 1861

Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.

Species[]

E. concordia, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
E. pusilla, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
E. sophonisba, Jatun Sacha Biological Reserve, Puerto Misahuallí, Ecuador

The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:[1][2][3]

  • (Doubleday, [1847])
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • (Cramer, [1777])
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • (Cramer, 1780)
  • C. & R. Felder, 1862
  • (Hewitson, 1852)
  • Salvin, 1869
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • (Hewitson, 1857)
  • (Hewitson, 1857)
  • (Salvin, 1869) - Mira purplewing
  • (Hewitson, 1852)
  • (Hewitson, 1852) – sandbar purplewing
  • (Godart, [1819]) – Cuvier's purplewing
  • Fruhstorfer, 1907
  • Salvin, 1869
  • (Cramer, [1775])
  • Bates, 1864
  • Jenkins, 1990
  • Seitz, 1915
  • Jenkins, 1990
  • Gundlach, 1881
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Bates, 1864 – Malvina purplewing
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • Godman & Salvin, 1877
  • Eunica monima (Stoll, [1782]) - dingy purplewing
  • (Godart, [1824])
  • (Hewitson, 1852) – Norica purplewing
  • C. & R. Felder, 1862
  • (Cramer, [1775])
  • C. & R. Felder, 1862
  • Eunica pomona (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) – rounded purplewing
  • Bates, 1864 - pusilla purplewing
  • (Cramer, [1782]) – glorious purplewing
  • (Godart, [1824]) – Godart's purplewing
  • Eunica tatila (Herrich-Schaeffer, [1855]) – Florida purplewing
  • (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
  • Bates, 1864
  • Bates, 1864
  • Staudinger, [1885]
  • (Godart, [1824])

References[]

  1. ^ Epicaliini Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Nymphalidae Study Group website
  2. ^ "Eunica Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  3. ^ Identification Guide - Nymphalidae 1, Butterflies of Amazonia
  • Jenkins, D. W. 1990. Neotropical Nymphalidae. VIII. Revision of Eunica. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 131:1-175.
  • Lamas, G. (ed.) 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. (Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea to Papilionoidea). Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.

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