Heliconiini

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
Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)
Scientific classification
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

• 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

• List of fritillaries (butterflies)