Marpesia (butterfly)

Marpesia

Marpesia zerynthia in the Venezuelan Andes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Cyrestinae
Genus:	Marpesia Hübner, 1818
Species
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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

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

The genus includes the following species, listed alphabetically:

M. chiron
southern Amazon, Brazil

M. chiron
the Pantanal, Brazil

M. furcala
southern Amazon

M. orsilochus
southern Amazon