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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.

Genera and select species

  • Agraulis <small>(Boisduval & Le Conte, 1833)</small> monotypic
  • Agraulis vanillae <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – Gulf fritillary
  • Dione <small>(Hübner, 1819)</small>
  • Dione juno <small>(Cramer, 1779)</small> – Juno silverspot, Juno longwing
  • Dryadula <small>(Michener, 1942)</small> monotypic
  • Dryadula phaetusa <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – banded orange, orange tiger
  • Dryas <small>(Hübner, 1807)</small> monotypic
  • Dryas iulia <small>(Hübner, 1807)</small> – Julia longwing
  • Eueides <small>(Hübner, 1816)</small> – longwings
  • Heliconius <small>(Kluk, 1802)</small> – longwings or heliconians
  • Philaethria <small>(Billberg, 1820)</small>
  • Podotricha <small>(Michener, 1942)</small>

Two additional genera, Laparus <small>Billberg, 1820</small> and Neruda <small>Turner, 1976</small>, have recently been synonymized with Heliconius.

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