Marpesia (butterfly)

Marpesia is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical and Nearctic realms.

Marpesia
Purple-stained daggerwing Marpesia marcella valetta, Panama
Marpesia zerynthia in the Venezuelan Andes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Cyrestinae
Genus:	Marpesia Hübner, 1818[1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
Athena Hübner, [1819] Euglyphus Billberg, 1820 Marius Swainson, [1830] Petreus Swainson, [1833] Megalura Blanchard, 1840 Timetes Doubleday, 1844 Tymetes Doyère, [1840] Tymetes Boisduval, [1846] Timetes Boisduval, 1870 (preocc. Timetes Doubleday, 1844) Eumargareta Grote, 1898

Species

The 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))

• 
  M. chiron
  southern Amazon, Brazil
• 
  M. chiron
  the Pantanal, Brazil
• 
  M. furcala
  southern Amazon
• 
  M. orsilochus
  southern Amazon
• 
  M. orsilochus
  southern Amazon

References

1. "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. 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.
3. Learn About Butterflies