Marpesia furcula

Marpesia furcula
	M. f. iole, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
	M. f. oechalia, Cristalino River; Southern Amazon, Brazil
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Marpesia
Species:	M. furcula
Binomial name
	Marpesia furcula; (Fabricius, 1793)
Synonyms
	Papilio furcula Fabricius, 1793; Papilio iole Drury, 1782; Papilio jole Stoll, 1790 (preocc. Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775); Marpesia zosteria Hübner, [1819]; Timetes furcula oechalia Westwood, 1850; Timetes hermione C. & R. Felder, 1861; Timetes heraldicus Bates, 1865; Timetes funestis Butler, 1869; Megalura iole argentina Martin, [1923]; Megalura hermione peruura Bryk, 1953;

The Sunset Daggerwing, Glossy Daggerwing, (Marpesia furcula) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is found in Central America and South America, from Nicaragua to Bolivia and Argentina. The habitat consists of evergreen rainforests at altitudes up to 1,400 meters.

There are two distinct forms, the orange form oechalia and the form iole which has an intense iridescent purple sheen overlaying the golden orange basal area.^[2]

Subspecies

Marpesia furcula furcula (Jamaica)
Marpesia furcula oechalia (Westwood, 1850) (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil: Amazonas, Argentina)
Marpesia furcula violetta (Hall, 1929) (western Ecuador)

References

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[1] Marpesia at funet

[2] Butterflies of the Amazon and Andes

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