Victorinini

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Victorinini
White peacock (Anartia jatrophae)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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

Image Genus Species
Metamorpha (Hübner, 1819)
Anartia (Hübner, 1819) – peacocks
Siproeta (Hübner, 1823)
Napeocles (Bates, 1864)


  • Anartia amathea
    Anartia amathea
  • Anartia fatima
    Anartia fatima
  • Anartia jatrophae
    Anartia jatrophae
  • Pair of A. jatrophae
    Pair of A. jatrophae
  • Siproeta superba - MHNT
    Siproeta superba - MHNT
  • Siproeta stelenes
    Siproeta stelenes
  • S. stelenes
    S. stelenes
  • S. stelenes
    S. stelenes
  • S. stelenes
    S. stelenes

References

  • Wahlberg, N.; Brower, A. V. Z.; Nylin, S (2005), "Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae" (PDF), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86 (2): 227–251, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00531.x
  • Wahlberg, N. (2006), "That awkward age for butterflies: insights from the age of the butterfly subfamily Nymphalinae" (PDF), Systematic Biology, 55 (5): 703–714, doi:10.1080/10635150600913235, PMID 16952908
  • Wahlberg, Niklas; Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2006), Victorinini: Scudder 1893, 9 December 2006 (under construction), The Tree of Life Web Project