''Hypanartia'', commonly called mapwings, is a butterfly genus in the family
Nymphalidae
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species ha ...
found from
Mexico
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ...
to
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere. It can also be described as the southern Subregion#Americas, subregion o ...
.
Morphological data, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA reveal that ''Hypanartia'' is a possible sister clade a genera including:
Polygonia
''Polygonia'' (from Greek language, Greek πολύς - ''polys'', "many" and γωνία - ''gōnia'', "angle") is a genus of butterflies with a conspicuous white mark on the underside of each hindwing, hence the common name comma. They also have ...
,
Aglais
''Aglais'' is a Holarctic genus of Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies, containing the tortoiseshells. This genus is sometimes indicated as a subgenus of ''Nymphalis'' or simply being an unnecessary division from the genus ''Nymphalis'',Evans, ...
,
Nymphalis
''Nymphalis'', commonly known as the tortoiseshells or anglewing butterflies, is a genus of Nymphalidae, brush-footed butterflies. The genera ''Aglais'', ''Inachis'', ''Polygonia'' and ''Kaniska canace, Kaniska'', were sometimes included as subge ...
, and more.
Species
* ''
Hypanartia bella''
(Fabricius, 1793) – Bella mapwing
* ''
Hypanartia celestia''
Lamas, Willmott & Hall, 2001
* ''
Hypanartia cinderella''
Lamas, Willmott & Hall, 2001 – Cinderella admiral
* ''
Hypanartia charon''
(Hewitson, 1878)
* ''
Hypanartia christophori''
Jasiñski, 1998
* ''
Hypanartia dione''
(Latreille, 1813) – banded mapwing
* ''
Hypanartia fassli''
Willmott, Hall & Lamas, 2001 – Colombian admiral
* ''
Hypanartia godmanii''
(Bates, 1864) – Godman's mapwing, splendid mapwing
* ''
Hypanartia kefersteini''
(Doubleday, 1847) – red mapwing
* ''
Hypanartia lethe''
(Fabricius, 1793) – orange mapwing
* ''
Hypanartia lindigii''
(C. & R. Felder, 1862)
* ''
Hypanartia paullus
''Hypanartia paullus'' (Antillean mapwing) is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Jamaica, Cuba, Hispaniola and Puerto Rico. It occurs in a wide variety of wooded habitats from sea level to 1,900 meters.
The length of the fore ...
''
(Fabricius, 1793) – Antillean mapwing
* ''
Hypanartia splendida''
Rothschild, 1903
* ''
Hypanartia trimaculata
''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 includi ...
''
Willmott, Hall & Lamas, 2001 – reddish mapwing
References
Nymphalini
Nymphalidae of South America
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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