Victorinini

Victorinini is a tribe of brush-footed butterflies. The four butterfly genera contained in this tribe are Anartia, Metamorpha, Napeocles, and Siproeta.

Victorinini
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Victorinini Scudder, 1893
Genera
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Those genera were previously included in the Kallimini tribe. In the early 2000s, molecular phylogenetics determined that Kallimini encountered a paraphyly with regard to the Melitaeini. There is also some indication that the genus Siproeta could be paraphyletic with regard to Napeocles.

List of genera

Image	Genus	Species
	Anartia (Hübner, 1819) – peacocks	A. amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown (or scarlet) peacock A. chrysopelea (Hübner, 1831) – Cuban peacock A. fatima (Fabricius, 1793) – banded peacock or Fatima A. jatrophae (Linnaeus, 1763) – white peacock A. lytrea (Godart, 1819) – Godart's peacock
	Metamorpha (Hübner, 1819)	M. elissa (Hübner, 1819)
	Napeocles (Bates, 1864)	N. jucunda (Hübner, 1808)
	Siproeta (Hübner, 1823)	S. epaphus (Latreille, 1813) S. superba (Bates, 1864) S. stelenes (Linnaeus, 1758) – malachite

Gallery

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  Anartia amathea
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  Anartia fatima
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  Anartia jatrophae
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  Pair of A. jatrophae
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  Siproeta superba - MHNT
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  Siproeta stelenes
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  S. stelenes
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  S. stelenes
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  S. stelenes

References

• Wahlberg, N.; Brower, A. V. Z.; Nylin, S (2005), "Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae" (PDF), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86 (2): 227–251, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00531.x
• Wahlberg, N. (2006), "That awkward age for butterflies: insights from the age of the butterfly subfamily Nymphalinae" (PDF), Systematic Biology, 55 (5): 703–714, doi:10.1080/10635150600913235, PMID 16952908
• Wahlberg, Niklas; Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2006), Victorinini: Scudder 1893, 9 December 2006 (under construction), The Tree of Life Web Project