釉蛺蝶亞科

釉蛺蝶亞科（學名：Heliconiinae），又名毒蝶亞科，是蛺蝶科蝴蝶的一個亞科。廣泛分佈於世界各地的熱帶地區，尤其在南美洲，珍蝶族的物種則在北半球都有分佈。大部份物種的幼蟲以有毒的西番蓮科植物作寄主，而成蟲以鮮豔的警告色來表示其身上有毒性。經常出見米氏擬態。

 分類 
族
 釉蛺蝶族 Heliconiini
 珍蝶族 Acraeini
 彩蛺蝶族 Vagrantini
 豹蛺蝶族 Argynnini

屬
 鋸蛺蝶屬 Cethosia —— 獨自進化出一個演化支，因此不歸入以上各屬Wahlberg, Niklas and Andrew V. Z. Brower. 2008. Heliconiinae Swainson 1822. Version 19 March 2008 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Heliconiinae/12194/2008.03.19  in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/ 

 參考 

 文獻 
 Brower, A. V. Z. 2000. Phylogenetic relationships among the Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera), inferred from partial sequences of the wingless gene. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B Biological Sciences 267:1201-1211.
 Freitas, A. V. L., and K. S. J. Brown. 2004. Phylogeny of the Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Systematic Biology 53:363-383.
 Penz, C., and D. Peggie. 2003. Phylogenetic relationships among Heliconiinae genera based on morphology (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Systematic Entomology 28:451-479.
 Silva-Brandão, K. L., Wahlberg, N., Francini, R. B., Azeredo-Espin, A. M. L., Brown, K. S. J., Paluch, M., Lees, D. C. & Freitas, A. V. L. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of butterflies of the tribe Acraeini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae, Heliconiinae) and the evolution of host plant use. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 46, 515-531.
 Wahlberg, N., E. Weingartner, and S. Nylin. 2003. Towards a better understanding of the higher systematics of Nymphalidae (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 28:473-484.

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