Vindula

Genus of brush-footed butterflies

Cruiser
Male Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia
Female Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Tribe: Vagrantini
Genus: Vindula
Hemming, 1934
Species

Four, see text

Vindula, commonly called cruisers, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae found in southeast Asia and Australia. These butterflies are dimorphic.

Species

Ordered alphabetically:[1]

  • Vindula arsinoe (Cramer, 1777) – cruiser
  • Vindula dejone (Erichson, 1834) – Malay cruiser, lesser cruiser[2]
  • Vindula erota (Fabricius, 1793) – common cruiser
  • Vindula sapor (Godman & Salvin, 1888)

References

  1. ^ "Vindula Hemming, 1934" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. ^ Kirton, Laurence G. (2014). A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malayasia, Singapore and Thailand. Oxford: John Beaufoy Publ., p 77.
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Taxon identifiers
Vindula


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