Victorinini

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

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

See text

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


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