Riodininae

Riodininae
Lange's Metalmark
Apodemia mormo langei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Riodinidae
Subfamily: Riodininae
Tribes

Eurybiini
Helicopini
Mesosemiini
Nymphidiini
Riodinini
Stalachtini
Symmachiini
and see text

Echydna punctata, Starry night
Cristalino River
Southern Amazon, Brazil

Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae.

A number of Riodininae genera are of uncertain affiliations.[1] They might belong into the Helicopini, but this needs further study. Such genera incertae sedis are:

Footnotes

  1. See Savela (2007) for references.

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