Vagrantini
Appearance
Vagrantini | |
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Cruiser (Vindula arsinoe) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Heliconiinae |
Tribe: | Vagrantini Duponchel, 1835 |
Genera | |
10, see text |
Vagrantini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae found from east Africa over the Indian subcontinent to eastern Asia and Australia.[1]
Genera
[edit]Listed in alphabetical order:[2]
- Algia Herrich-Schäffer, 1864
- Algiachroa Parsons, 1989
- Cirrochroa Doubleday, 1847 – yeomen
- Cupha Billberg, 1820
- Lachnoptera Doubleday, 1847
- Phalanta Horsfield, 1829 – leopards
- Smerina Hewitson, 1874
- Terinos Boisduval, 1836
- Vagrans Hemming, 1934
- Vindula Hemming, 1934
References
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- ^ Penz CM & Peggie D (2003) Phylogenetic relationships among Heliconiinae genera based on morphology (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Systematic Entomology 28: 451-479.
- ^ Tribe Vagrantini at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms