Heliconiini
Sign in to saveHeliconiini 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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- Heliconiinae
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- Longwings or Heliconians
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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.
==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) – longwings or heliconians Philaethria (Billberg, 1820) Podotricha (Michener, 1942)
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