Riodininae

Riodininae
Lange's metalmark Apodemia mormo langei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
(unranked):	Rhopalocera
Superfamily:	Papilionoidea
Family:	Riodinidae
Subfamily:	Riodininae
Tribes
Eurybiini Helicopini Mesosemiini Nymphidiini Riodinini Stalachtini Symmachiini and see text

Echydna punctata, starry night
Cristalino River
Southern Amazon, Brazil

Riodininae is the largest of the three subfamilies within the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae.

A number of Riodininae genera are of uncertain affiliations.^[1] They might belong in the Helicopini, but this needs further study. Such genera incertae sedis are:

• Apodemia
• Argyrogrammana
• Astraeodes
• Callistium
• Calydna
• Comphotis
• Dianesia
• Echenais
• Echydna
• Emesis
• Imelda
• Lamphiotes
• Machaya
• Pachythone
• Petrocerus
• Pixus
• Pseudonymphidia
• Pseudotinea
• Roeberella
• Zabuella

Footnotes

1. ↑ See Savela (2007) for references.

References

• Savela, Markku (2007): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Riodinidae. Version of 7 August 2007. Retrieved 9 September 2007.

Further reading

• Glassberg, Jeffrey Butterflies through Binoculars, The West (2001)
• Guppy, Crispin S. and Shepard, Jon H. Butterflies of British Columbia (2001)
• James, David G. and Nunnallee, David Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies (2011)
• Pelham, Jonathan Catalogue of the Butterflies of the United States and Canada (2008)
• Pyle, Robert Michael The Butterflies of Cascadia (2002)

External links

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• Pteron Images. In Japanese but with binomial names
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