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Mestra dorcas

Mestra is a genus of nymphalid butterfly. It contains the single species Mestra dorcas, the Jamaican mestra, which is found from southern North America to South America and possibly Mestra cana, the St Lucia mestra, found in the Lesser Antilles.

Subspecies
Listed alphabetically: • M. d. amymone (Ménétriés, 1857) (Louisiana to southern Texas and in Nicaragua, Costa Rica) – AmymoneM. d. apicalis (Staudinger, 1886) (Bolivia, Argentina, Brazil: São Paulo, Goiás, Pará) • M. d. dorcas Hübner, [1825] (Jamaica) • M. d. hersilia (Fabricius, 1777) (Guyana, Colombia, St. Lucia, Trinidad) • M. d. hypermestra Hübner, [1825] (Brazil: Pará, Paraguay) • M. d. latimargo (Hall, 1929) (Ecuador) • M. d. semifulva (C. & R. Felder, 1867) (Colombia) ==References==
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