Melitaeini are a group of brush-footedbutterflies. Usually classified as a tribe of the Nymphalinae, they are sometimes raised to subfamily status as Melitaeinae. Common names include the highly ambiguous fritillaries (also used for some Heliconiinae), checkerspots, crescents, or crescentspots, and some genus-specific names.
The 20–25 genera of Melitaeini are divided among five subtribes; some species are also listed. The subtribes, in the presumed phylogenetic sequence, are:[1]
melitaeini, group, brush, footed, butterflies, usually, classified, tribe, nymphalinae, they, sometimes, raised, subfamily, status, melitaeinae, common, names, include, highly, ambiguous, fritillaries, also, used, some, heliconiinae, checkerspots, crescents, c. Melitaeini are a group of brush footed butterflies Usually classified as a tribe of the Nymphalinae they are sometimes raised to subfamily status as Melitaeinae Common names include the highly ambiguous fritillaries also used for some Heliconiinae checkerspots crescents or crescentspots and some genus specific names MelitaeiniPearl crescent Phyciodes tharos Scientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum ArthropodaClass InsectaOrder LepidopteraFamily NymphalidaeSubfamily NymphalinaeTribe MelitaeiniNewman 1870GeneraNumerous see textSynonymsMelitaeinae Chlosyne janais Campeche MexicoGenera editThe 20 25 genera of Melitaeini are divided among five subtribes some species are also listed The subtribes in the presumed phylogenetic sequence are 1 Subtribe Euphydryina Euphydryas fritillaries checkerspotsSubtribe Melitaeina Melitaea fritillaries including Didymaeformis Mellicta Subtribe Chlosynina Antillea Higgins 1959 Atlantea Higgins 1959 Chlosyne checkerspots patches Dymasia Higgins 1960 Higginsius Hemming 1964 tentatively placed here Gnathotrichina Microtia Bates 1864 Poladryas Bauer 1975 Texola Higgins 1959 checkerspots Texola elada Elada checkerspotSubtribe Gnathotrichina Gnathotriche C amp R Felder 1862 Subtribe Phyciodina Anthanassa Scudder 1875 crescents crescentspots Anthanassa ardys Ardys crescent Anthanassa frisia Cuban crescent Cuban crescentspot Castilia Higgins 1981 Dagon Higgins 1981 Eresia Boisduval 1836 Janatella Higgins 1981 Mazia Higgins 1981 Ortilia Higgins 1981 Phyciodes crescents crescentspots Phystis Higgins 1981 Tegosa Higgins 1981 Tegosa anieta Telenassa Higgins 1981 Tisona Higgins 1981Footnotes edit See references in Savela 2010 References edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Melitaeini Savela Markku 2010 Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms Melitaeini Version of 30 June 2010 Retrieved 10 February 2011 nbsp This Nymphalinae article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Melitaeini amp oldid 1180098586 Genera, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
