''Vindula'', commonly called cruisers, 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 ...

of the

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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 ...

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 ha ...

found in

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and

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. These butterflies are dimorphic.

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'' (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'' (Fabricius, 1793) – common cruiser * '' Vindula sapor'' (Godman & Salvin, 1888)

References

External links

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