| Heliconiini | |
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| Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| 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 100 species and subspecies distributed primarily in the Neotropics.[1][2][3]
Genera and select species[edit]
- Agraulis (Boisduval & Le Conte, 1833) monotypic
- Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) – Gulf fritillary
- Dione (Hübner, 1819)
- Dione juno (Cramer, 1779) – Juno silverspot, Juno longwing
- Dryadula (Michener, 1942) monotypic
- Dryadula phaetusa (Linnaeus, 1758) – banded orange, orange tiger
- Dryas (Hübner, 1807) monotypic
- Dryas iulia (Hübner, 1807) – Julia longwing
- Eueides (Hübner, 1816) – longwings
- Heliconius (Kluk, 1802) – longwings or heliconians
- Philaethria (Billberg, 1820)
- Podotricha (Michener, 1942)
Two additional genera, Laparus Billberg, 1820 and Neruda Turner, 1976, have recently been synonymized with Heliconius.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Tree of Life Web Project". Archived from the original on 2017-09-10. Retrieved 2009-06-18.
- ^ Nymphalidae.net Archived 2010-07-11 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Tribe Heliconiini at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms