Riodininae

Riodininae
Lange's metalmark
Apodemia mormo langei
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
(unranked): Rhopalocera
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Riodinidae
Subfamily: Riodininae
Tribes

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Echydna punctata, starry night
Cristalino River
Southern Amazon, Brazil

Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae.

A number of Riodininae genera are of uncertain affiliations.[1] They might belong in the Helicopini, but this needs further study. Such genera incertae sedis are:

Footnotes

  1. See Savela (2007) for references.

References

Further reading

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