Victorinini

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Victorinini

White peacock, Anartia jatrophae

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked)	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Victorinini Scudder, 1893

Genera

Metamorpha
Anartia
Siproeta
Napeocles

Victorinini is a tribe of brush-footed butterflies. The four butterfly genera contained in this tribe were previously included in the Kallimini tribe. In the early 2000s, genetic testing determined that Kallimini encountered a paraphyly with regard to the Melitaeini and others, and between 2003 and 2006, Anartia, Metamorpha, Napeocles, and Siproeta have been classified in Victorinini.

There is also some indication that the genus Siproeta could be paraphyletic with regard to Napeocles.

[edit] List of species

Metamorpha (Hübner, 1819)
- M. elissa (Hübner, 1819)
Anartia (Hübner, 1819)
- A. amathea, Brown (or Scarlet) peacock (Linnaeus, 1758)
- A. chrysopelea, Cuban peacock (Hübner, 1831)
- A. fatima, Banded peacock, or Fatima (Fabricius, 1793)
- A. jatrophae White peacock (Linnaeus, 1763)
- A. lytrea, Godart's peacock (Godart, 1819)
Siproeta (Hübner, 1823)
- S. epaphus (Latreille, 1813)
- S. superba (Bates, 1864)
- S. stelenes Malachite (Linnaeus, 1758)
Napeocles (Bates, 1864)
- N. jucunda (Hübner, 1808)