Nymphalinae

Subfamily of butterfly family Nymphalidae

Nymphalinae

Kallima paralekta \- MHNT
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Nymphalidae
Subfamily:  | Nymphalinae
Swainson, 1827
Diversity
6 tribes (but see text)

The Nymphalinae are a subfamily of brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). Sometimes, the subfamilies Limenitidinae, and Biblidinae are included here as subordinate tribe(s), while the tribe Melitaeini is occasionally regarded as a distinct subfamily.

## Systematics[edit]

The traditionally recognized tribes of Nymphalinae are here listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence:[1]

* Coeini (six or seven genera)
* Nymphalini - anglewings, tortoiseshells and relatives (about 15 genera, two are fossil)
* Kallimini (about five genera)
* Victorinini (four genera, formerly in Kallimini)
* Junoniini (about five genera)
* Melitaeini - fritillaries (about 25 genera)

Genera incertae sedis are:

* Rhinopalpa – the wizard
* Kallimoides Shirôzu & Nakanishi, 1984 – African leaf butterfly
* Vanessula Dewitz, 1887

In addition to these, Crenidomimas is sometimes placed here, but may belong in the Limenitidinae, genus Euryphura.

The Late Eocene fossil genus Lithodryas might belong here, but it is generally assigned to the Lycaenidae.

## References[edit]

1. ^ See references in Savela (2010)

## Further reading[edit]

* Savela, Markku (2010): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms - Nymphalinae. Version of 2010-JUN-30. Retrieved 2011-FEB-08.
* Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
* Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)

## External links[edit]

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* Butterflies and Moths of North America
* Butterflies of America

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q32549
* Wikispecies: Nymphalinae
* AFD: Nymphalinae
* BioLib: 51576
* BugGuide: 12670
* CoL: 93MY9
* Fauna Europaea: 441663
* Fauna Europaea (new): fa8ccfb7-aefc-4183-b84f-02441aeecc6c
* Fossilworks: 245011
* iNaturalist: 202067
* ITIS: 694088
* NBN: NHMSYS0000503420
* NCBI: 40040
* NZOR: 8432651e-76e1-4bdd-8d71-472cf734b0dd

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