Anartia
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.
| 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 | |
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Five, see text | |
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 jatrophae - MHNT
References
- Anartia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anartia. |
- A molecular phylogeny of the neotropical butterfly genus Anartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae), Michael J. Blum, Eldredge Bermingham, and Kanchon Dasmahapatra
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