The Haeterini are one of the smaller tribes of the Satyrinae in the Nymphalidae (brush-footed butterfly) family. The tribe occurs exclusively in tropical rain forests in the Neotropical realm.
It contains 29 described species and 39 subspecies classified in the following five genera:
There are differences in the shape of the forewings between males and females, with males having wing shapes that are more efficient in gliding flight performance. Cithaerias Hübner, Dulcedo d'Almeida, 1951 Haetera Fabricius, 1807 Pierella Westwood, Pseudohaetera Brown, 1942
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References
(ed), 2004. Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea – Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera. , 2019. Species limits in butterflies (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae): reconciling classical taxonomy with the multispecies coalescent. Systematic Entomology, in press. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12352. , 2009. Haeterini Herrich-Schaeffer 1864. Version 2 June 2009 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Haeterini/70265/2009.06.02 in The Tree of Life Web Project.
External links Pteron Images. In Japanese but with Latin scientific names