Victorinini

Victorinini
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Nymphalinae
Tribe: Victorinini
Scudder, 1893
Genera

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Victorinini is a tribe of brush-footed butterflies. The four butterfly genera contained in this tribe are Anartia, Metamorpha, Napeocles, and Siproeta.

Those genera were previously included in the Kallimini tribe. In the early 2000s, molecular phylogenetics determined that Kallimini encountered a paraphyly with regard to the Melitaeini. There is also some indication that the genus Siproeta could be paraphyletic with regard to Napeocles.

List of genera

ImageGenusSpecies
Anartia (Hübner, 1819) – peacocks
Metamorpha (Hübner, 1819)
Napeocles (Bates, 1864)
Siproeta (Hübner, 1823)


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