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Heliconiini 
Summary
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]
| 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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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
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Heliconiini.
- ^ "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