Helicopini
| Helicopini | |
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| Helicopis gnidus collection specimen | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Suborder: | Ditrysia |
| (unranked): | Rhopalocera |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Subfamily: | Riodininae |
| Tribe: | Helicopini Reuter 1897 |
| Genera | |
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The Helicopini are a tribe of metalmark butterflies (family Riodinidae).
Genera
As numerous Riodinidae genera have not yet been unequivocally assigned to a tribe, the genus list is preliminary. In fact, it is likely that the bulk of the Riodinidae incertae sedis belongs into this group.[1]
Footnotes
- ↑ See Savela (2007) for references.
References
- Savela, Markku (2007): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Riodinidae. Version of 2007-AUG-07. Retrieved 2007-SEP-09.
Further reading
- Révision du genre Helicopis (Erycinidae) E. Le Moult Paris : Novitates entomologicae, 1939.
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