Anartia

Taxobox
name = "Anartia"


image_width = 250px
image_caption = White peacock
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Nymphalidae
subfamilia = Nymphalinae
tribus = Victorinini
genus = "Anartia"
type_species = Papilio jatrophae
type_species_authority = Linnaeus, 1763
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
*"Anartia amathea"
*"Anartia chrysopelea"
*"Anartia fatima"
*"Anartia jatrophae"
*"Anartia lytrea"
genus_authority = (Hübner, 1831)

"Anartia" is a genus of butterflies in family Nymphalidae, and subfamily Nymphalinae, found in tropical and subtropical areas in the Americas. The butterflies are all known as "peacocks", although the common European peacock is not in the same genus.

List of species

*"Anartia amathea" (Linnaeus, 1758), Brown (or Scarlet) peacock.
*"Anartia chrysopelea" (Hübner, 1831), Cuban peacock, or Caribbean peacock.
*"Anartia fatima" (Fabricius, 1793), Banded peacock, or Fatima.
*"Anartia jatrophae" (Linnaeus, 1763), White peacock, or Masote.
*"Anartia lytrea" (Godart, 1819), Godart's peacock, or Hispaniolan Peacock.

External links

* [http://striweb.si.edu/publications/PDFs/Bermingham,%20Anartia%20phylogeny%20MPE03.pdf A molecular phylogeny of the neotropical butterfly genus Anartia (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)] , Michael J. Blum, Eldredge Bermingham, and Kanchon Dasmahapatra
* [http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/anartia/index.html Anartia] at funet.fi