Heliconiini
| Heliconiini | |
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| Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele) | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| (unranked): | Rhopalocera |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Heliconiinae |
| Tribe: | Heliconiini Swainson, 1822 |
| Genera | |
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Heliconiini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, also known as the passion-vine butterflies. This group has roughly a 100 species and subspecies distributed worldwide. [1][2][3]
Genera and select species
- Agraulis (Boisduval & Le Conte, 1833) monotypic
- Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) – Gulf Fritillary
- Cethosia (Fabricius, 1807) – lacewings
- Dione (Hübner, 1819)
- Dione juno (Cramer, 1779) – Juno Silverspot, Juno Longwing
- Dryadula (Michener, 1942) monotypic
- Dryadula phaetusa (Linnaeus, 1758) – Banded Orange, Orange Tiger
- Dryas (Hübner, 1807) monotypic
- Dryas iulia (Hübner, 1807) – Julia Longwing
- Eueides (Hübner, 1816) – longwings
- Heliconius (Kluk, 1802) – brush-footed butterflies
- Neruda Turner 1976
- Laparus Billberg, 1820 - Doris Longwing
- Philaethria (Billberg, 1820)
- Podotricha (Michener, 1942)
- Speyeria (Scudder, 1872) – greater fritillaries
See also
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