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

• Metamorpha (Hübner, 1819)
  • M. elissa (Hübner, 1819)
• Anartia (Hübner, 1819) – peacocks
  • A. amathea (Linnaeus, 1758) – brown (or scarlet) peacock
  • A. chrysopelea (Hübner, 1831) – Cuban peacock
  • A. fatima (Fabricius, 1793) – banded peacock or Fatima
  • A. jatrophae (Linnaeus, 1763) – white peacock
  • A. lytrea (Godart, 1819) – Godart's peacock
• Siproeta (Hübner, 1823)
  • S. epaphus (Latreille, 1813)
  • S. superba (Bates, 1864)
  • S. stelenes (Linnaeus, 1758) – malachite
• Napeocles (Bates, 1864)
  • N. jucunda (Hübner, 1808)

Gallery

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