Danaini

The Danaini are a tribe of brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). The tribe's type genusDanaus contains the well-known monarch butterfly (D. plexippus) and is also the type genus of the tribe's subfamily, the milkweed butterflies (Danainae).

The Danaini do not have a fixed colloquial name for the entire tribe, but in particular for subtribeDanaina the term tiger butterflies is occasionally used in reference to the numerous species in several genera.