Overview
Argynnini is a tribe of butterflies in the subfamily Heliconiinae, containing some of the fritillaries. This group has also been classified as subtribe Argynnina of the Heliconiini, or even as a distinct subfamily Argynninae in the Nymphalidae. This group has roughly 30 species in North America with other species distributed worldwide.
While many treatments consider several proposed genera to be junior synonyms of Argynnis ? occasionally even the fairly distinct Speyeria ?, other authors treat Argynnis in a much more circumscribed manner and split off Argyreus, Damora, Speyeria and others. To a lesser extent, similar uncertainty affects Boloria and Issoria.
- Euptoieta Doubleday 1848
- Yramea Reuss 1920
- Boloria (including Clossiana)
- Issoria H?
bner 1819
- Queen of Spain Fritillary, Issoria lathonia
- Brenthis H?bner 1819
- Argynnis Fabricius 1807
- Cardinal, Argynnis pandora
- Dark Green Fritillary, Argynnis aglaja
- Indian Fritillary, Argynnis hyperbius
- Niobe Fritillary, Argynnis niobe
- Silver-washed Fritillary, Argynnis paphia
- Argyreus
- Australian Fritillary, Argyreus hyperbius
- Speyeria Scudder 1872 (sometimes included in Argynnis)
- Aphrodite Fritillary, Speyeria aphrodite (Fabricius, 1787)
- Atlantis Fritillary, Speyeria atlantis (Edwards, 1862)
- Calippe Fritillary, Speyeria calippe
- Calippe Silverspot Butterfly, Speyeria callippe callippe
- Great Spangled Fritillary, Speyeria cybele
- Diana Fritillary, Speyeria diana
- Northwestern Fritillary, Speyeria hesperis
- Hydaspe Fritillary, Speyeria hydaspe
- Zerene Fritillary, Speyeria zerene
- Myrtle's Silverspot Butterfly, Speyeria zerene myrtleae
Taxonomy
The Tribe Argynnini is a member of the Subfamily Heliconiinae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Argynnini:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Superorder: Panorpida
- Order: Lepidoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Family: Nymphalidae
- Brushfooted Butterflies
- Subfamily: Heliconiinae
- Heliconians and Fritillaries
- Tribe: Argynnini
- Subfamily: Heliconiinae
- Heliconians and Fritillaries
- Family: Nymphalidae
- Brushfooted Butterflies
- Infraorder: Heteroneura
- a genus of Longhorned Beetles (Cerambycidae)
- Order: Lepidoptera
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Butterflies and Moths
- Superorder: Panorpida
- Cohort: Myoglossata
- Infraclass: Pterygota
- Winged Insects
- Subclass: Dicondylia
- Class: Insecta
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - Insects
- Superclass: Panhexapoda
- Infraphylum: Atelocerata
Heymons, 1901
- Subphylum: Mandibulata
Snodgrass, 1938
- Phylum: Arthropoda
Latreille, 1829 - Arthropods
- Superphylum: Panarthropoda
Cuvier
- Infrakingdom: Ecdysozoa
A.M.A. Aguinaldo et al., 1997 ex T. Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - ecdysozoans
- Branch: Protostomia
Grobben, 1908 - protostomes
- Subkingdom: Bilateria
(Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983 - bilaterians
- Kingdom: Animalia
C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
The Tribe Argynnini is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (16): Argynnis · Argyreus · Argyronome · Boloria · Brenthis · Childrena · Clossiana · Damora · Euptoieta · Fabriciana · Issoria · Mesoacidalia · Pandoriana · Proclossiana · Speyeria · Yramea
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1,384 species and subspecies in the Tribe Argynnini.
Genera
Argynnis
Argynnis, commonly known as fritillaries, is the genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae commonly found in Europe and Asia. Delimitation versus Speyeria is problematic, and the latter genus is sometimes entirely included in Argynnis. [more]
Argyreus
A Genus in the Kingdom Animalia.[1] [more]
Argyronome
Boloria
Boloria is a brush-footed (Nymphalidae) genus. Clossiana is usually included with it nowadays, though some authors still consider it distinct and it seems to warrant recognition as a subgenus at least. [more]
Brenthis
Childrena
Clossiana
Damora
Euptoieta
Fabriciana
Issoria
Mesoacidalia
Pandoriana
Proclossiana
Speyeria
Yramea
More info about the Genus Yramea may be found here.
Footnotes
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