Eunica
Eunica | |
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Male (museum specimen) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Epicaliini |
Genus: | Eunica Hübner, [1819] |
Type species | |
Stoll, 1782
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Diversity | |
About 40 species | |
Synonyms | |
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Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.
Species[]
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[]
- ^ Epicaliini Archived 2011-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Nymphalidae Study Group website
- ^ "Eunica Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ 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.
External links[]
- Eunica, Tree of Life
Categories:
- Biblidinae
- Nymphalidae of South America
- Nymphalidae genera
- Taxa named by Jacob Hübner