| Riodininae | |
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| Lange's Metalmark Apodemia mormo langei |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| (unranked): | Rhopalocera |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
| Family: | Riodinidae |
| Subfamily: | Riodininae |
| Tribes | |
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Eurybiini |
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The Riodininae are the larger by far of the subfamilies of the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae. The latter was long united with the Lycaenidae.
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: