Eunica

Eunica is a genus of nymphalid butterflies found in the Neotropical realm.

Eunica
Male Eunica mygdonia (museum specimen)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Tribe:	Epicaliini
Genus:	Eunica Hübner, [1819]
Type species
Papilio monima Stoll, 1782
Diversity
About 40 species
Synonyms
Amycla Doubleday, 1849 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied) Callianira Doubleday, 1847 (non Péron & Lesueur, 1810: preoccupied) Eunice Geyer, 1832 (non Rafinesque, 1815: preoccupied) Evonyme Hübner, 1819 Faunia Poey, 1847 (non Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830: preoccupied) Libythina Felder, 1861

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

E. concordia, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

E. pusilla, Cristalino River, Southern Amazon, Brazil

E. sophonisba, Jatun Sacha Biological Reserve, Puerto Misahuallí, Ecuador

The genus contains the following species, listed alphabetically:^[2][3][4]

• Eunica Chepkorir Rono (Doubleday, [1847])
• 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])