page_title: List of butterflies of Australia
section_title: Heliconiinae: longwings
hierarchical_section_title: List of butterflies of Australia / Nymphalidae: brush– or four-footed / Heliconiinae: longwings
caption_attribution_description: English: Common Leopard Phalanta phalantha in Hyderabad , India.
context_page_description: Australia has more than 400 species of butterfly, the majority of which are continental species, and more than a dozen endemic species from remote islands administered by various Australian territorial governments. The largest butterflies in the world are endemic to the Australasian realm. They are the birdwings—Ornithoptera and other genera—of the tribe Troidini of the swallowtail butterfly family, Papilionidae.
context_section_description: subfamily: Heliconiinae (longwings)
  tribe: Acraeini
  genus: Acraea
  Glasswing, Acraea andromacha (Fabricius, 1775)
  A. a. andromacha (Fabricius, 1775)
  tribe: Heliconiini
  genus: Cethosia
  Red lacewing, Cethosia cydippe (Linnaeus, 1758)
  C. c. chrysippe (Fabricius, 1775)
  Orange lacewing, Cethosia penthesilea (Cramer, 1777)
  C. p. paksha (Fruhstorfer, 1905)
  tribe: Vagrantini
  genus: Vindula
  Cruiser, Vindula arsinoe (Cramer, 1777) — pictured right
  V. a. ada (Butler, 1874)
  genus: Cupha
  Bordered rustic, Cupha prosope (Fabricius, 1775)
  C. p. prosope (Fabricius, 1775)
  genus: Vagrans
  Tailed rustic, Vagrans egista (Cramer, 1780)
  V. e. propinqua (Miskin, 1884)
  genus: Phalanta
  Spotted rustic, Phalanta phalantha (Drury, 1773) — pictured right
  P. p. araca (Waterhouse & Lyell, 1914)
  tribe: Argynnini
  genus: Argynnis
  Laced fritillary, Argynnis hyperbius (Linnaeus, 1763) — pictured right
  A. h. inconstans Butler, 1873
caption: Spotted rustic
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