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Heliconiini

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Scientific name
  
Heliconiini

Higher classification
  
Heliconiinae

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

Superfamily
  
Papilionoidea

Subfamily
  
Heliconiinae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Rank
  
Tribe

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Lower classifications
  
Eueides, Cethosia, Boloria, Speyeria, Small pearl‑bor

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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.

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Genera and select species

  • 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) – brush-footed butterflies
  • Neruda Turner 1976
  • Laparus Billberg, 1820 - Doris longwing
  • Philaethria (Billberg, 1820)
  • Podotricha (Michener, 1942)

    • References

    Heliconiini Wikipedia
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