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Hackberry Butterflies
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Hackberry Butterflies

Asterocampa

Asterocampa, commonly called hackberry butterflies or American emperors, is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae found mainly in North and Central America and the Caribbean.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Hackberry Emperor

speciesAsterocampa celtis

Tawny Emperor

speciesAsterocampa clyton

Empress Leilia

speciesAsterocampa leilia

Dusky Emperor

speciesAsterocampa idyja

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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 58588.