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Hypanartia
Sign in to saveHypanartia, commonly called mapwings, is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.
Species
Orange Mapwing
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyNymphalidae
Observations3,406
Observations recorded10,010
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 9
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Collections
- UMNH, USNM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Costa Rica, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela
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Hypanartia, commonly called mapwings, is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.
Morphological data, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA reveal that Hypanartia is a possible sister clade a genera including: Polygonia, Aglais, Nymphalis, and more.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hypanartia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.