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
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Victorinini
Genus: Anartia
Hübner, 1819
Type species
Anaria jatrophae
Species

Five, see text

Species

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Listed alphabetically.[1]

Image Scientific name Common Name Distribution
  Anartia amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) brown peacock or scarlet peacock Panama to Argentina; Grenada, Barbados and Antigua
  Anartia chrysopelea Hübner, [1831] Cuban peacock or Caribbean peacock Cuba
  Anartia fatima (Fabricius, 1793) banded peacock or Fatima south Texas, Mexico, and Central America
  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

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  1. ^ Anartia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
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  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. Bibcode:2003MolPE..26...46B. doi:10.1016/S1055-7903(02)00291-9. PMID 12470937. Retrieved 27 September 2021.