Vindula

Cruiser
Male Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia
Female Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Tribe: Vagrantini
Genus: Vindula
Hemming, 1934
Species

4, see text

Vindula, commonly called Cruisers, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae found in southeast Asia and Australia. These butterflies are dimorphic.

Species

Ordered alphabetically.[1]

References

  1. Vindula, funet.fi
  2. Kirton, Laurence G. (2014). A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malayasia, Singapore and Thailand. Oxford:John Beaufoy Publ., p 77.

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