Biology:Anartia

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Short description: Genus of butterflies

Anartia
WhitePeacock.jpg
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
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.[1]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
Scarlet peacock (Anartia amathea) male.JPG Anartia amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) brown peacock or scarlet peacock Panama to Argentina; Grenada, Barbados and Antigua
Cuban Peacock. Anartia chrysopelea - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg Anartia chrysopelea Hübner, [1831] Cuban peacock or Caribbean peacock Cuba
Banded Peacock.jpg Anartia fatima (Fabricius, 1793) banded peacock or Fatima south Texas, Mexico, and Central America
WhitePeacock.jpg 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

  1. Anartia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q1758756 entry