The Symmachiini are a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide usage of the term in English language, English is in the discipline of anthropology. This definition is contested, in p ...
of metalmark
butterflies
Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the Order (biology), order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The ...
(
family
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Riodinidae
Riodinidae is the family of metalmark butterflies. The common name "metalmarks" refers to the small, metallic-looking spots commonly found on their wings. The 1532 species are placed in 146 genera. Although mostly Neotropical in distribution, t ...
).
Genera
As numerous Riodinidae
genera
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nomenclat ...
have not yet been unequivocally assigned to a tribe, the genus list is preliminary.
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Chimastrum''
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Esthemopsis''
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Lucillella''
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Mesene
Characene (Ancient Greek: Χαρακηνή), also known as Mesene (Μεσσήνη) or Meshan, was a kingdom founded by the Iranian Hyspaosines located at the head of the Persian Gulf mostly within modern day Iraq. Its capital, Charax Spasinou ( ...
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Mesenopsis''
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Panaropsis''
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Phaenochitonia''
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Pirascca''
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Pterographium''
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Stichelia''
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Symmachia''
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Xenandra''
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Xynias''
Riodininae
Taxa named by Henry Walter Bates
Butterfly tribes
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