Callicorini

Biblidinae

Biblidinae

Subfamily of the butterfly family Nymphalidae

Biblidinae is a subfamily of nymphalid butterflies that includes the tropical brushfoots. This subfamily was sometimes merged within the Limenitidinae, but they are now recognized as quite distinct lineages. In older literature, this subfamily is sometimes called Eurytelinae.

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Red rim (Biblis hyperia: Biblidini)
Little banner Nica flavilla
Panacea procilla: Ageroniini specimen underside
Dynamine athemon: Eubagini
Diaethria clymena, one of the eighty-eights formerly in "Catagramma" (now Callicorini)

As of 2008, some 340 valid species are in this subfamily, placed in 38[verification needed] genera. Most species of Biblidinae are Neotropical, but there are some Old World species and genera in the tribes Biblidini and Epicaliini.

Systematics

The Biblidinae are a taxonomically stable monophyletic group, at least since the "wastebin genus" Catagramma was dismantled around 1950.

The tribes, in the presumed phylogenetic sequence and with notable genera also listed here, are:[1]

Biblidini Boisduval, 1833

Epicaliini Guenée, 1865

Ageroniini Doubleday, 1847

Epiphilini Jenkins, 1987

  • Asterope Hübner, [1819]
  • Pyrrhogyra Hübner, 1819 (= Corybas)
  • Epiphile Doubleday, 1844
  • Lucinia Hübner, 1823 (= Autodea)
  • Bolboneura Godman & Salvin, 1877
  • Temenis Hübner, 1819 (= Callicorina, Paromia Hewitson, 1861 (non Westwood, 1851: preoccupied))
  • Nica Hübner, 1826 (= Pseudonica)
  • Peria Kirby, 1871 (= Pelia Doubleday, 1849 (non Bell, 1836: preoccupied))

Eubagini Burmeister, 1878

  • Dynamine Hübner, 1819 (= Arisba, Eubagis, Sironia)

Callicorini Orfila, 1952 – eighty-eights and relatives

References

  1. [1]
    The higher classification of Nymphalidae, at Nymphalidae.net

Sources

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  • Jenkins, D. W. (1985). Neotropical Nymphalidae. IV. Revision of Ectima. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum (Gainesville), 95, 1-30.
  • Jenkins, D. W. (1986). Neotropical Nymphalidae. V. Revision of Epiphile. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum (Gainesville), 101, 1-70.
  • Jenkins, D. W. (1987). Neotropical Nymphalidae. VI. Revision of Asterope (=Callithea Auct.). Bulletin of the Allyn Museum of Entomology, 114, 1-66.
  • Jenkins, D. W. (1989). Neotropical Nymphalidae. VII. Revision of Nessaea. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum (Gainesville), 125, 1-38.
  • Jenkins, D. W. (1990). Neotropical Nymphalidae. VIII. Revision of Eunica. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, 131, 1-177.
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