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Marpesia furcula | |
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M. f. iole, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica | |
M. f. oechalia, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Marpesia |
Species: | M. furcula
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Marpesia furcula | |
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Marpesia furcula, the sunset daggerwing or glossy daggerwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Central and South America, from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Argentina. The habitat consists of evergreen rainforests at altitudes up to 1,400 meters.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]- Marpesia furcula furcula (Jamaica)
- Marpesia furcula oechalia (Westwood, 1850) (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas, Argentina)
- Marpesia furcula violetta (Hall, 1929) (western Ecuador)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Marpesia furcula.
- ^ "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes[usurped]
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