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Genus of brush-footed butterflies
Eunica
Male
Eunica mygdonia (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Nymphalidae
Tribe:
Epicaliini
Genus:
Eunica
Hübner , [1819]
Type species
Papilio monima
Diversity
About 40 species
Synonyms
Amycla Doubleday, 1849 (non Rafinesque, 1815:
preoccupied )
Callianira Doubleday, 1847 (non Péron & Lesueur, 1810: preoccupied)
Eunice Geyer, 1832 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied)
Evonyme Hübner, 1819
Faunia Poey, 1847 (non Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: preoccupied)
Libythina Felder, 1861
Eunica is a genus of
nymphalid
butterflies found in the
Neotropical realm .
E. concordia , Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
E. pusilla , Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil
E. sophonisba , Jatun Sacha Biological Reserve, Puerto Misahuallí, Ecuador
The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:
[1]
[2]
[3]
Eunica Chepkorir Rono (Doubleday, [1847])
Eunica alpais (Godart, [1824])
Eunica amelia (Cramer, [1777])
Eunica amycla (Godart, [1824])
Eunica anna (Cramer, 1780)
Eunica araucana C. & R. Felder, 1862
Eunica bechina (Hewitson, 1852)
Eunica brunnea Salvin, 1869
Eunica caelina (Godart, [1824])
Eunica caralis (Hewitson, 1857)
Eunica carias (Hewitson, 1857)
Eunica chlorochroa (Salvin, 1869) - Mira purplewing
Eunica clytia (Hewitson, 1852)
Eunica concordia (Hewitson, 1852) – sandbar purplewing
Eunica cuvierii (Godart, [1819]) – Cuvier's purplewing
Eunica eburnea Fruhstorfer, 1907
Eunica elegans Salvin, 1869
Eunica eurota (Cramer, [1775])
Eunica evelide Bates, 1864
Eunica incognita Jenkins, 1990
Eunica ingens Seitz, 1915
Eunica interphasis Jenkins, 1990
Eunica heraclites Gundlach, 1881
Eunica macris (Godart, [1824])
Eunica maja (Fabricius, 1775)
Eunica malvina Bates, 1864 – Malvina purplewing
Eunica margarita (Godart, [1824])
Eunica marsolia (Godart, [1824])
Eunica mira Godman & Salvin, 1877
Eunica monima (Stoll, [1782]) - dingy purplewing
Eunica mygdonia (Godart, [1824])
Eunica norica (Hewitson, 1852) – Norica purplewing
Eunica olympias C. & R. Felder, 1862
Eunica orphise (Cramer, [1775])
Eunica phasis C. & R. Felder, 1862
Eunica pomona (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) – rounded purplewing
Eunica pusilla Bates, 1864 - pusilla purplewing
Eunica sophonisba (Cramer, [1782]) – glorious purplewing
Eunica sydonia (Godart, [1824]) – Godart's purplewing
Eunica tatila (Herrich-Schaeffer, [1855]) – Florida purplewing
Eunica venusia (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
Eunica veronica Bates, 1864
Eunica viola Bates, 1864
Eunica violetta Staudinger, [1885]
Eunica volumna (Godart, [1824])
Jenkins, D. W. 1990. Neotropical Nymphalidae. VIII. Revision of Eunica . Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 131:1-175.
Lamas, G. (ed.) 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera . (Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea to Papilionoidea). Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.