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Daggerwings
Marpesia
Marpesia is a butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae. The species of this genus are found in the Neotropical and Nearctic realms.
18 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Ruddy Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia petreus

Many-banded Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia chiron

Waiter Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia zerynthia

Orange Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia berania

Pansy Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia marcella

Sunset Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia furcula

Corinna Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia corinna

Crethon Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia crethon

Spot-banded Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia merops

Orsilochus Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia orsilochus

Norica Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia themistocles
Caribbean Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia eleuchea

Livius Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia livius

Pale Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia harmonia

Orange-banded Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia corita
Egina Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia egina

Tutelina Daggerwing
speciesMarpesia tutelina
Marpesia pantepuiana
speciesMarpesia pantepuiana
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 50284.