Victorinini is a tribe of brush-footed butterflies. The four butterfly genera contained in this tribe are Anartia, Metamorpha, Napeocles, and Siproeta.
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| White peacock (Anartia jatrophae) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Subfamily: | Nymphalinae |
| Tribe: | Victorinini Scudder, 1893 |
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Those genera were previously included in the Kallimini tribe. In the early 2000s, molecular phylogenetics determined that Kallimini encountered a paraphyly with regard to the Melitaeini. There is also some indication that the genus Siproeta could be paraphyletic with regard to Napeocles.
List of genera
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Anartia (Hübner, 1819) – peacocks |
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Metamorpha (Hübner, 1819) |
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Napeocles (Bates, 1864) |
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Siproeta (Hübner, 1823) |
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Gallery
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Anartia amathea -
Anartia fatima -
Anartia jatrophae -
Pair of A. jatrophae -
Siproeta superba - MHNT -
Siproeta stelenes -
S. stelenes -
S. stelenes -
S. stelenes
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References
edit- Wahlberg, N.; Brower, A. V. Z.; Nylin, S (2005), "Phylogenetic relationships and historical biogeography of tribes and genera in the subfamily Nymphalinae" (PDF), Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 86 (2): 227–251, doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2005.00531.x
- Wahlberg, N. (2006), "That awkward age for butterflies: insights from the age of the butterfly subfamily Nymphalinae" (PDF), Systematic Biology, 55 (5): 703–714, doi:10.1080/10635150600913235, PMID 16952908
- Wahlberg, Niklas; Brower, Andrew V.Z. (2006), Victorinini: Scudder 1893, 9 December 2006 (under construction), The Tree of Life Web Project
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