Heliconiini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, also known as the passion-vine butterflies. This group has roughly 100 species and subspecies distributed primarily in the Neotropics.Nymphalidae.net Tribe Heliconiini at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
Genera and select species Agraulis (Boisduval & Le Conte, 1833) monotypic Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) – Gulf fritillary Dione (Hübner, 1819) Dione juno (Cramer, 1779) – Juno silverspot, Juno longwing Dryadula (Michener, 1942) monotypic Dryadula phaetusa (Linnaeus, 1758) – banded orange, orange tiger Dryas (Hübner, 1807) monotypic Dryas iulia (Hübner, 1807) – Julia longwing Eueides (Hübner, 1816) – longwings Heliconius (Kluk, 1802) – longwings or heliconians Philaethria (Billberg, 1820) Podotricha (Michener, 1942)
Two additional genera, Laparus Billberg, 1820 and Neruda Turner, 1976, have recently been synonymized with Heliconius.
See also List of fritillaries (butterflies)
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