Riodininae

Taxobox
name = Riodininae


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Lange's Metalmark "Apodemia mormo langei"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Insecta
ordo = Lepidoptera
unranked_familia = Rhopalocera
superfamilia = Papilionoidea
familia = Riodinidae
subfamilia = Riodininae
subfamilia_authority =
subdivision_ranks = Tribes
subdivision =
Eurybiini
Helicopini
Mesosemiini
Nymphidiini
Riodinini
Stalachtini
Symmachiini and see text

The Riodininae are the larger by far of the subfamilies of the metalmark butterfly family, Riodinidae. The latter was long united with the Lycaenidae.

A number of Riodininae genera are of uncertain affiliations [See Savela (2007) for references.] . They might belong into 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

References

* (2007): [http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/riodinidae/index.html Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms: Riodinidae] . Version of 2007-AUG-07. Retrieved 2007-SEP-09.

External links

* [http://www.pteron-world.com/topics/classfication/riodinidae/riodininae.html Pteron] Images. In Japanese but binomial names.