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title: "Red Peacock"
description: "Anartia amathea — Insetti e ragni. Anartia amathea, the brown peacock (scarlet peacock, red peacock), is a species of nymphalid butterfly, found primarily in South America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/red-peacock
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red Peacock

> Anartia amathea — Insetti e ragni. Anartia amathea, the brown peacock (scarlet peacock, red peacock), is a species of nymphalid butterfly, found primarily in South America.

- Scientific name: *Anartia amathea*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 18196
- Wikidata: [Q148567](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q148567)
- iNaturalist taxon: [83652](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/83652)

## Names

- en: Red Peacock
- es: Mariposa pavo real roja

## Countries with the most observations

CO (5287), BR (5168), EC (3424), AR (914), TT (718), PE (570), BO (547), VE (350), GF (204), SR (120), PY (61), UY (48)

## Summary

Anartia amathea, the brown peacock (scarlet peacock, red peacock), is a species of nymphalid butterfly, found primarily in South America. This butterfly is very similar to the banded peacock or Anartia fatima, which primarily exists north of the range of Anartia amathea. The type locality is probably Suriname, and the species is found from Panama to Argentina; Grenada, Barbados and Antigua. It consumes nectar. It is reported as common in Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, the Brazilian highlands, the eastern Amazon, the Guianas, Venezuela, and Panama, as well as Trinidad and other Caribbean islands. North American records…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anartia_amathea

## Photo

![Red Peacock](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-peacock/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/337101618

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/red-peacock?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).