Anartia

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Nymphalinae
Tribus: Victorinini
Genus: Anartia
Species: A. amathea – A. chrysopelea – A. fatima – A. jatrophae – A. lytrea
Name

Anartia Hübner, 1819

Type species: Papilio jatrophae Linnaeus, 1763

Synonyms

Celaena Doubleday, 1849
Celoena Boisduval, 1870
Anartiella Fruhstorfer, 1907

References

Munroe, E.G. 1942. The Caribbean races of Anartia jatrophae Johansson (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). American Museum Novitates 1179: 1–4. Full article (PDF).

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

Listed alphabetically.[1]

Anartia amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown peacock 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

References

Anartia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms