Victorinini 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 language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
of
brush-footed butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
. The four butterfly genera contained in this tribe are ''Anartia'', ''Metamorpha'', ''Napeocles'', and ''Siproeta''.
Those genera were previously included in the
Kallimini tribe. In the early 2000s,
molecular phylogenetics
Molecular phylogenetics () is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships. From these analyses, it is possible to ...
determined that Kallimini encountered a
paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and most of its descendants, excluding a few monophyletic subgroups. The group is said to be paraphyletic ''with respect to'' the excluded subgroups. In co ...
with regard to the
Melitaeini
Melitaeini are a group of brush-footed butterflies. Usually classified as a tribe of the Nymphalinae, they are sometimes raised to subfamily status as Melitaeinae. Common names include the highly ambiguous fritillaries (also used for some Helic ...
. There is also some indication that the genus ''Siproeta'' could be paraphyletic with regard to ''Napeocles''.
List of genera
Gallery
Image:Anartia.amathea.jpg, ''Anartia amathea''
Image:Anartia fatima.jpg, ''Anartia fatima''
Image:Anartia jatrophae (side).jpg, ''Anartia jatrophae''
Image:Anartia jatrophae 000.jpg, Pair of ''A. jatrophae''
Image:Siproeta superba MHNT ventre.jpg, ''Siproeta superba'' - MHNT
Image:Malachite butterfly.JPG, ''Siproeta stelenes''
Image:Malachite underside.JPG, ''S. stelenes''
Image:Malachvlinder.jpg, ''S. stelenes''
Image:Siproeta stelenes.jpg, ''S. stelenes''
References
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Taxa named by Samuel Hubbard Scudder
Butterfly tribes
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