Eunica

Eunica
Male of Eunica mygdonia (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Biblidinae
Tribe:	Epicaliini
Genus:	Eunica Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Papilio monima Stoll, 1782
Diversity
About 40 species
Synonyms
Amycla Doubleday, 1849 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied) Callianira Doubleday, 1847 (non Péron & Lesueur, 1810: preoccupied) Eunice Geyer, 1832 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied) Evonyme Hübner, 1819 Faunia Poey, 1847 (non Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: preoccupied) Libythina Felder, 1861

Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterfly found in the Neotropical Ecozone.

Species

Listed alphabetically.^[1][2][3]

• Eunica alcmena (Doubleday, [1847])
• Eunica alpais (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica amelia (Cramer, [1777])
• Eunica amycla (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica anna (Cramer, 1780)
• Eunica araucana C. & R. Felder, 1862
• Eunica bechina (Hewitson, 1852)
• Eunica brunnea Salvin, 1869
• Eunica caelina (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica caralis (Hewitson, 1857)
• Eunica carias (Hewitson, 1857)
• Eunica chlorochroa (Salvin, 1869) - mira purplewing
• Eunica clytia (Hewitson, 1852)
• Eunica concordia (Hewitson, 1852) – Sandbar Purplewing
• Eunica cuvierii (Godart, [1819]) – Cuvier's Purplewing
• Eunica eburnea Fruhstorfer, 1907
• Eunica elegans Salvin, 1869
• Eunica eurota (Cramer, [1775])
• Eunica evelide Bates, 1864
• Eunica incognita Jenkins, 1990
• Eunica ingens Seitz, 1915
• Eunica interphasis Jenkins, 1990
• Eunica heraclites Gundlach, 1881
• Eunica macris (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica maja (Fabricius, 1775)
• Eunica malvina Bates, 1864 – Malvina Purplewing
• Eunica margarita (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica marsolia (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica mira Godman & Salvin, 1877
• Eunica monima (Stoll, [1782]) - Dingy purplewing
• Eunica mygdonia (Godart, [1824])
• Eunica norica (Hewitson, 1852) – Norica Purplewing
• Eunica olympias C. & R. Felder, 1862
• Eunica orphise (Cramer, [1775])
• Eunica phasis C. & R. Felder, 1862
• Eunica pomona (C. & R. Felder, [1867]) – Rounded Purplewing
• Eunica pusilla Bates, 1864 - Pusilla Purplewing
• Eunica sophonisba (Cramer, [1782]) – Glorious Purplewing
• Eunica sydonia (Godart, [1824]) – Godart's Purplewing
• Eunica tatila (Herrich-Schaeffer, [1855]) – Florida Purplewing
• Eunica venusia (C. & R. Felder, 1867)
• Eunica veronica Bates, 1864
• Eunica viola Bates, 1864
• Eunica violetta Staudinger, [1885]
• Eunica volumna (Godart, [1824])

• 

  E. concordia
  Sandbar purplewing
  Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

• 

  E. pusilla
  Pusilla purplewing
  Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

References

1. Epicaliini, Nymphalidae Study Group website
2. Eunica, funet.fi
3. Identification Guide - Nymphalidae 1, Butterflies of Amazonia

• Jenkins, D. W. 1990. Neotropical Nymphalidae. VIII. Revision of Eunica. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 131:1-175.
• Lamas, G. (ed.) 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. (Checklist: Part 4A, Hesperioidea to Papilionoidea). Scientific Publishers, Gainesville, Florida.

External links

• Eunica, Tree of Life