Heliconiini
Tribe of butterflies
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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.[1][2][3]
| Heliconiini | |
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| 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.
