''Vindula'', commonly called cruisers, is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprises t ...

of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family

Nymphalidae The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a re ...

found in

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and Australia. These butterflies are

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Species

Ordered alphabetically: * ''

Vindula arsinoe ''Vindula arsinoe'', the cruiser, is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae. It ranges from the Maluku Islands and New Guinea to the Solomon Islands and Queensland. It is sexually dimorphic. File:CruiserButterfly.jpg, Dorsal view of male, Ca ...

'' (Cramer, 1777) – cruiser * ''

Vindula dejone ''Vindula dejone'', the Malay cruiser, is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae found in Southeast Asia. It is sexually dimorphic. Larvae feed on ''Adenia ''Adenia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the passionflower family, Passiflora ...

'' (Erichson, 1834) – Malay cruiser, lesser cruiserKirton, Laurence G. (2014). ''A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malayasia, Singapore and Thailand.'' Oxford: John Beaufoy Publ., p 77. * ''

Vindula erota ''Vindula erota'', the common cruiser, is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in forested areas of tropical South Asia and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, also spelled South East Asia and South-East Asia, and also known as Southeastern As ...

'' (Fabricius, 1793) – common cruiser * ''

Vindula sapor ''Vindula sapor'' is a butterfly from the family Nymphalidae found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language of Papua New Guinea, which is spoken in surroundin ...

'' (Godman & Salvin, 1888)

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Vagrantini Nymphalidae genera Taxa named by Francis Hemming {{Heliconiinae-stub