Hypanartia Explained

Hypanartia, commonly called mapwings, is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.^[1]

Morphological data, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA reveal that Hypanartia is a possible sister clade a genera including: Polygonia, Aglais, Nymphalis, and more.^[2]

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 (Fabricius, 1793) – Antillean mapwing
• Hypanartia splendida Rothschild, 1903
• Hypanartia trimaculata Willmott, Hall & Lamas, 2001 – reddish mapwing

Notes and References

1. http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/nymphalinae/hypanartia/ "Hypanartia Hübner, [1821]"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Nylin . Sören . Nyblom . Klas . Ronquist . Fredrik . Janz . Niklas . Belicek . Joseph . Källersjö . Mari . August 2001 . Phylogeny of Polygonia, Nymphalis and related butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): a total-evidence analysis . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society . 132 . 4 . 441–468 . 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb02470.x . 0024-4082.