Heliconiini

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Heliconiini
Great Spangled Fritillary (Speyeria cybele)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Heliconiinae
Tribe: Heliconiini
Swainson, 1822
Genera

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Heliconiini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, also known as the passion-vine butterflies. This group has roughly a 100 species and subspecies distributed worldwide. [1][2][3]

Genera and select species

  • Agraulis (Boisduval & Le Conte, 1833) monotypic
    • Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) – Gulf Fritillary
  • Cethosia (Fabricius, 1807) – lacewings
  • Dione (Hübner, 1819)
  • Dryadula (Michener, 1942) monotypic
  • Dryas (Hübner, 1807) monotypic
  • Eueides (Hübner, 1816) – longwings
  • Heliconius (Kluk, 1802) – brush-footed butterflies
  • Neruda Turner 1976
  • Laparus Billberg, 1820 - Doris Longwing
  • Philaethria (Billberg, 1820)
  • Podotricha (Michener, 1942)
  • Speyeria (Scudder, 1872) – greater fritillaries

References

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