Vindula
Appearance
(Redirected from Cruiser (butterfly))
Cruiser | |
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Male Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia | |
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Female Vindula arsinoe, Cairns, Australia | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Tribe: | Vagrantini |
Genus: | Vindula Hemming, 1934 |
Species | |
Four, see text |
Vindula, commonly called cruisers, is a genus of butterflies of the subfamily Heliconiinae in the family Nymphalidae found in southeast Asia and Australia. These butterflies are dimorphic.
Species
[edit]Ordered alphabetically:[1]
- Vindula arsinoe (Cramer, 1777) – cruiser
- Vindula dejone (Erichson, 1834) – Malay cruiser, lesser cruiser[2]
- Vindula erota (Fabricius, 1793) – common cruiser
- Vindula sapor (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
References
[edit]- ^ "Vindula Hemming, 1934" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ Kirton, Laurence G. (2014). A Naturalist's Guide to the Butterflies of Peninsular Malayasia, Singapore and Thailand. Oxford: John Beaufoy Publ., p 77.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vindula.
- Vindula at Tree of life
- Images representing Vindula at Consortium for the Barcode of Life