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
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
(Fabricius, 1793)[1]
Synonyms
  • Papilio furcula Fabricius, 1793
  • Papilio iole Drury, 1782
  • Papilio jole Stoll, 1790 (preocc. Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
  • Marpesia zosteria Hübner, [1819]
  • Timetes furcula oechalia Westwood, 1850
  • Timetes hermione C. & R. Felder, 1861
  • Timetes heraldicus Bates, 1865
  • Timetes funestis Butler, 1869
  • Megalura iole argentina Martin, [1923]
  • Megalura hermione peruura Bryk, 1953

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)

References
  1. "Marpesia Hübner, 1818" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes


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