Eunica tatila Herrich-Schäffer is a animal in the Nymphalidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Eunica tatila Herrich-Schäffer

Eunica tatila Herrich-Schäffer

Eunica tatila, the Florida purplewing, is a Nymphalidae brushfoot butterfly found across the Americas from southern US to Argentina.

Family
Genus
Eunica
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Eunica tatila Herrich-Schäffer

Eunica tatila, commonly known as the Florida purplewing, is a species of tropical brushfoot butterfly belonging to the family Nymphalidae. This species can be found across the Americas, ranging from southern Texas and southern Florida in North America southward all the way to Argentina. The Hodges (also called MONA) number assigned to Eunica tatila is 4533.

Photo: (c) Wayne Fidler, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Wayne Fidler · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Eunica

More from Nymphalidae

Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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