Argynnini
| Argynnini | |
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| Male Argynnis sagana, sometimes treated as Damora sagana | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| (unranked): | Rhopalocera |
| Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Heliconiinae |
| Tribe: |
Argynnini Duponchel, 1835 |
| Genera | |
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Around seven, but see text |
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Around seven, but see text
Argynnini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, containing some of the fritillaries. This group has also been classified as subtribe Argynnina of the Heliconiini, or even as a distinct subfamily Argynninae in the Nymphalidae. This group has roughly 30 species in North America with other species distributed worldwide.
While many treatments consider several proposed genera to be junior synonyms of Argynnis – occasionally even the fairly distinct Speyeria – other authors treat Argynnis in a much more circumscribed manner and split off Argyreus, Damora, Speyeria and others. To a lesser extent, similar uncertainty affects Boloria and Issoria.
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