Eunica
Genus of brush-footed butterflies
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Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.
| Eunica | |
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| Male Eunica mygdonia (museum specimen) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Epicaliini |
| Genus: | Eunica Hübner, [1819] |
| Type species | |
| Papilio monima Stoll, 1782 | |
| Diversity | |
| About 40 species | |
| Synonyms | |
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These butterflies have some eye-like spots on the wings. According to one research, there is an evolutionary tendency for decreasing of the number of spots.[1]
Species
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The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:[2][3][4]
- 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])