Anaeini

Anaeini
Museum specimen of Cramer's leafwing (Zaretis isidora)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Nymphalidae
Subfamily:Charaxinae
Tribe:Anaeini
Reuter, 1896
Genera

Ten, see text

Anaeini is a tribe of Neotropical brush-footed butterflies. Their wing undersides usually mimic dead leaves.

Included genera (and notable species) are:

Aneaomorpha is sometimes placed here, but more often in the Preponini.

References

  1. "Anaea Hübner, [1819]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
  2. Glassberg, Jeffrey. (2007) A Swift Guide to Butterflies of Mexico and Central America. Sunstreak Books Inc. p. 120–1.


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