Marpesia (Genus)

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A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.

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Taxonomy

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Domain: Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
  - Subkingdom: Bilateria (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
    - Branch: Protostomia Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
      - Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa Aguinaldo Et Al., 1997 Ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
        Superphylum: Panarthropoda Cuvier
        Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
        Subphylum: Mandibulata Snodgrass, 1938
        Infraphylum: Atelocerata Heymons, 1901
        Superclass: Panhexapoda
        Class: Insecta C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
        Subclass: Dicondylia
        Infraclass: Pterygota - Winged Insects
        Cohort: Myoglossata
        Superorder: Amphiesmenoptera
        Order: Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
        Infraorder: Heteroneura - a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
        Family: Nymphalidae - Brushfooted Butterflies
        Subfamily: Limenitidinae - Admirals
        Genus: Marpesia - a genus of Daggerwings, Map Butterflies (Cyrestinae)

The Genus Marpesia is further organized into finer groupings including:

Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 61 species and subspecies in the Genus Marpesia: M. alcibiades · M. bahamensis · M. berania (Berania Daggerwing) · M. camillus · M. catulus · M. chiron (Many-Banded Daggerwing) · M. chironias · M. chironides · M. chriton · M. cinna · M. coresia · M. corinna (Corinna Daggerwing) · M. corita · M. cressilineata · M. crethon (Crethon Daggerwing) · M. donckieri · M. dospassosi · M. egina (Egina Daggerwing) · M. elegans · M. eleuchea (Antillean Daggerwing) · M. fruhstorferi · M. funestis · M. furcula (Furcula Daggerwing) · M. furcula oechalia (Furcula Oechalia Daggerwing) · M. furcula subsp. furcula (Furcula Daggerwing) · M. harmonia (Pale Daggerwing) · M. heraldicus · M. hermiome · M. hermione · M. hewitsoni · M. insularis · M. iole · M. livius (Livius Daggerwing) · M. livius livius · M. luzulina · M. marcella (Marcella Daggerwing) · M. marius · M. merops (Merops Daggerwing) · M. nigrescens · M. norica (Norica Daggerwing) · M. orsilochus (Orsilochus Daggerwing) · M. pantheus · M. peleus · M. pellenis · M. peruura · M. petreus (Ruddy Daggerwing) · M. petreus petreus · M. phiale · M. poeyi · M. sublineata · M. sylla · M. themistocles (Themistocles Daggerwing) · M. themistocles subsp. norica (Themistocles Daggerwing) · M. theonis · M. thetys · M. tutelina (Tutelina Daggerwing) · M. valetta · M. violetta · M. zerynthia (Waiter Daggerwing) · M. zerynthia dentigera (Waiter Daggerwing) · M. zosteria

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