Vagrantini is a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in part due to confl ...
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 ...
in the
subfamily Heliconiinae
The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be divided into 45–50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconiidae within the ...
found from east Africa over the Indian subcontinent to eastern Asia and Australia.
Genera
Listed in alphabetical order:
Tribe Vagrantini
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms''
* '' Algia'' Herrich-Schäffer, 1864
* '' Algiachroa'' Parsons, 1989
* '' Cirrochroa'' Doubleday, 1847 – yeomen
* '' Cupha'' Billberg, 1820
* '' Lachnoptera'' Doubleday, 1847
* '' Phalanta'' Horsfield, 1829 – leopards
* '' Smerina'' Hewitson, 1874
* '' Terinos'' Boisduval, 1836
* '' Vagrans'' Hemming, 1934
* '' Vindula'' Hemming, 1934
References
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Butterfly tribes
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