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Heliconius
Kluk, 1780
(butterfly)
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Entity:
Heliconiini (Tribe)
..Agraulis (Genus)
..Dione (Genus)
..Dryadula (Genus)
..Dryas (Genus)
..Eueides (Genus)
..Laparus (Genus)
..Neruda (Genus)
..Philaethria (Genus)
..Podotricha (Genus)
..Heliconius (Genus)
....Heliconius antiochus (Species)
....Heliconius astraea (Species)
....Heliconius atthis (Species)
....Heliconius beskei (Species)
....Heliconius burneyi (Species)
....Heliconius charithonia (Species)
....Heliconius choarina (Species)
....Heliconius clysonymus (Species)
....Heliconius congenor (Species)
....Heliconius crispinus (Species)
....Heliconius cydno (Species) - blue-and-white longwing
....Heliconius demeter (Species)
....Heliconius egeria (Species)
....Heliconius eleuchia (Species)
....Heliconius elevatus (Species)
....Heliconius ennius (Species)
....Heliconius erato (Species)
....Heliconius ethilla (Species)
....Heliconius ethra (Species)
....Heliconius fruhstorferi (Species)
....Heliconius hecale (Species)
....Heliconius hecalesia (Species)
....Heliconius hecuba (Species)
....Heliconius heliconoides (Species)
....Heliconius hermathena (Species)
....Heliconius heurippa (Species)
....Heliconius hewitsoni (Species)
....Heliconius hierax (Species)
....Heliconius himera (Species)
....Heliconius hortense (Species)
....Heliconius ismenius (Species)
....Heliconius leucadia (Species)
....Heliconius melpomene (Species)
....Heliconius metaphorus (Species)
....Heliconius nattereri (Species)
....Heliconius numata (Species)
....Heliconius pachinus (Species)
....Heliconius pardalinus (Species)
....Heliconius procula (Species)
....Heliconius ricini (Species)
....Heliconius sapho (Species)
....Heliconius sara (Species)
....Heliconius sergestus (Species)
....Heliconius telesiphe (Species)
....Heliconius timareta (Species)
....Heliconius vicini (Species)
....Heliconius wallacei (Species)
....Heliconius xanthocles (Species)
Authorship
SN2000 author citation
:
K. Kluk, 1780
Original name
:
Kluk, K. 1780.
Zwierz. Hist. nat. pocz. gospod.
4
: 82.
Original rank
:
loc. cit.
Original spelling
:
loc. cit.
Types
Type of
:
Heliconiina
(Subtribe)
Type of
:
Heliconiinae
(Subfamily)
Swainson, 1822
Type of
:
Heliconiini
(Tribe)
Swainson, 1822
Type, by subsequent designation
:
Heliconius charithonia
(C. Linnaeus, 1767)
Ref:
Hemming, 1933. Entomologist 66: 223.
[
new
]
Variants
Unavailable name
:
Heliconii
C. Linnaeus, 1758, nom. inval.
Unavailable name
:
Papilio Heliconius
([unranked])
C. Linnaeus, 1758, nom. inval.
Synonyms
Including
:
Neruda
(Genus)
Turner, 1976
Ref:
N. Wahlberg (ed.), [2006]
: 24 May 2013.
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