''Euptoieta'' is a genus of

butterflies Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

in the subfamily

Heliconiinae The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family (biology), family Nymphalidae). They can be divided into 45–50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconi ...

found in the

Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In biogeogra ...

ecological zone.

Species

Listed alphabetically:"''Euptoieta'' Doubleday, [1848]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' * ''Euptoieta bogotana">848]"">"''Euptoieta'' Doubleday, [1848]"
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' * ''Euptoieta bogotana'' (Staudinger, 1885) * ''Euptoieta claudia'' (Cramer, 1775) – variegated fritillary * ''Euptoieta hegesia'' (Cramer, 1779) – Mexican fritillary * ''Euptoieta hortensia'' (Blanchard, 1852) * '' Euptoieta perdistincta'' (Hall, 1930) * '' Euptoieta poasina'' (Schaus, 1913) * '' Euptoieta sunides'' (Hewitson, 1877) * '' Euptoieta thekla'' (Hall, 1919)

References

*Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). ''Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea''. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL. Argynnini Nymphalidae genera Taxa named by Henry Doubleday {{Heliconiinae-stub