Hypanartia

Hypanartia
Hypanartia paullus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Nymphalini
Genus:	Hypanartia Hübner, 1821

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

References

1. "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. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2001.tb02470.x. ISSN 0024-4082.