Acraeini

Acraeini
Acraea eponina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Tribe: Acraeini
Boisduval, 1833
Acraeini genera

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Acraeini is a tribe of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae.

Genera

Listed alphabetically.[1]

The genus Acraea is highly paraphyletic and needs to be redelimited. This will possibly re-establish the old genus Telchinia, and perhaps others.

References

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