Marpesia is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical and Nearctic realms.
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| Purple-stained daggerwing Marpesia marcella valetta, Panama | |
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| Marpesia zerynthia in the Venezuelan Andes | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Cyrestinae |
| Genus: | Marpesia Hübner, 1818[1] |
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Species
editThe genus includes the following species, listed alphabetically:[1][2][3]
- Marpesia berania (Hewitson, 1852) – amber daggerwing (Mexico, Colombia Ecuador, Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Honduras)
- Marpesia chiron (Fabricius, 1775) – many-banded daggerwing (southern United States, Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba, Mexico to Ecuador, Suriname)
- Marpesia corinna (Latreille, [1813]) – Corinna daggerwing (Colombia, Peru)
- Marpesia corita (Westwood, 1850) – orange-banded daggerwing (Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras)
- Marpesia crethon (Fabricius, 1776) – Crethon daggerwing (Suriname, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela)
- Marpesia egina (Bates, 1865) – Egina daggerwing (Brazil (Amazonas), Peru)
- Marpesia eleuchea Hübner, 1818 – Antillean daggerwing (Cuba, Bahamas, Dominican Republic, Antilles)
- Marpesia furcula (Fabricius, 1793) – sunset daggerwing (Nicaragua, Panama, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil (Amazonas), Argentina)
- Marpesia harmonia (Klug, 1836) – pale daggerwing or Harmonia daggerwing (Mexico)
- Marpesia livius (Kirby, 1871) – Livius daggerwing (Mexico to Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador)
- Marpesia marcella (C. & R. Felder, 1861) – pansy daggerwing (Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru)
- Marpesia merops (Doyère, [1840]) – dappled daggerwing (Guatemala to Bolivia)
- Marpesia orsilochus (Fabricius, 1776) – Orsilochus daggerwing (Suriname, Brazil)
- Marpesia pantepuiana (Costa, Attal & Viloria, 2016) - (Venezuela)
- Marpesia petreus (Cramer, [1776]) – ruddy daggerwing (United States (Texas, Florida), Guadelope, Mexico)
- Marpesia themistocles (Fabricius, 1793) – Norica daggerwing (Ecuador, Peru, Brazil (Amazonas))
- Marpesia tutelina (Hewitson, 1852) – Tutelina daggerwing (Brazil (Amazonas))
- Marpesia zerynthia Hübner, [1823] – waiter daggerwing (United States (Texas), Colombia, Peru, Ecuador Brazil (Bahia))
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M. chiron
southern Amazon, Brazil -
M. chiron
the Pantanal, Brazil -
M. furcala
southern Amazon -
M. orsilochus
southern Amazon -
M. orsilochus
southern Amazon
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References
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- ^ a b "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Jeffrey Glassberg (2007). A Swift Guide to the Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. ISBN 978-1-4243-0915-3. p.117.
- ^ Learn About Butterflies
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