Vindula
| Cruiser | |
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| Male Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia | |
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| 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 | |
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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]
- Vindula arsinoe (Cramer, 1777) – Cruiser
- Vindula dejone (Erichson, 1834) – Malay Cruiser, Lesser Cruiser[2]
- Vindula erota (Fabricius, 1793) – Common Cruiser
- Vindula sapor (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
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