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Helicopini

Helicopini
Helicopis gnidus1.jpg
Helicopis gnidus collection specimen
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Ditrysia
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Riodinidae
Subfamily: Riodininae
Tribe: Helicopini
Reuter 1897
Genera
  • See text for list.

The Helicopini are a tribe of metalmark butterflies (family Riodinidae).

As numerous Riodinidae genera have not yet been unequivocally assigned to a tribe, the genus list is preliminary. In fact, it is likely that the bulk of the Riodinidae incertae sedis belongs into this group.



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