Anaeini

Anaeini
Museum specimen of Cramer's Leafwing (Zaretis isidora)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Charaxinae
Tribe: Anaeini
Reuter, 1896
Genera

10, see text

Anaeini is a tribe of Neotropical brush-footed butterflies. Their wing undersides usually mimic dead leaves.

Included genera (and notable species) are:

Aneaomorpha is sometimes placed here, but more often in the Preponini

References

  1. Anaea, funet.fi
  2. Glassberg, Jeffrey. (2007) A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p. 120–1.

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