''Euptoieta'' is a genus of
butterflies in the subfamily
Heliconiinae
The Heliconiinae, commonly called heliconians or longwings, are a subfamily of the brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). They can be divided into 45–50 genera and were sometimes treated as a separate family Heliconiidae within the P ...
found in the
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In bioge ...
ecological zone.
Species
Listed alphabetically:
"''Euptoieta''_Doubleday,_[1848]"
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* ''Euptoieta bogotana'' (Staudinger, 1885)
* ''Euptoieta claudia'' (Cramer, 1775) – variegated fritillary
* ''Euptoieta hegesia'' (Cramer, 1779) – Mexican fritillary
* ''Euptoieta hortensia'' (Blanchard, 1852)
* '' Euptoieta perdistincta'' (Hall, 1930)
* '' Euptoieta poasina'' (Schaus, 1913)
* '' Euptoieta sunides'' (Hewitson, 1877)
* '' Euptoieta thekla'' (Hall, 1919)
References
*Gerardo Lamas (edited by) (2004). ''Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea''. Scientific Publishers, Inc., Gainesville, FL.
Argynnini
Nymphalidae genera
Taxa named by Henry Doubleday
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