Marpesia furcula
Marpesia furcula, the sunset daggerwing or glossy daggerwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Centra and South America, from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Argentina. The habitat consists of evergreen rainforests at altitudes up to 1,400 meters.
Marpesia furcula | |
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M. f. iole, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica | |
M. f. oechalia, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Marpesia |
Species: | M. furcula |
Binomial name | |
Marpesia furcula | |
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There are two distinct forms, the orange form oechalia and the form iole which has an intense iridescent purple sheen overlaying the golden-orange basal area.[2]
Subspecies
- Marpesia furcula furcula (Jamaica)
- Marpesia furcula oechalia (Westwood, 1850) (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas, Argentina)
- Marpesia furcula violetta (Hall, 1929) (western Ecuador)
gollark: _has denied it_
gollark: _considers offering on it_
gollark: If I leave it a while, are people likely to be annoyed and withdraw offers or are people used to keeping them on for a while on rare stuff?
gollark: I guess it's hardly a *bad* problem as such.
gollark: I've posted on all of them, actually.
References
- "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes
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