Heliconiini | |
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Great spangled fritillary (Speyeria cybele) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
(unranked): | Rhopalocera |
Superfamily: | Papilionoidea |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Subfamily: | Heliconiinae |
Tribe: |
Heliconiini Swainson, 1822 |
Genera | |
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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.