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Tribe of butterflies

Kallimini

Denaid eggfly (Hypolimnas misippus) on Portulacaria afra in Hyderabad, India
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Nymphalinae
Tribe:	Kallimini Doherty, 1886
Genera
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Kallimini is a tribe of brush-footed butterflies.

List of genera

Catacroptera Karsch, 1894 – pirates
Doleschallia C. & R. Felder, 1860
Hypolimnas – eggflies, diadems (tentatively placed here)
Kallima Doubleday, 1849 – oakleaf butterflies, oakleaves
Mallika Collins & Larsen, 1991 – Jackson's leaf butterfly

In some classifications, Hypolimnas is placed in the Junoniini.

References

Media related to Kallimini at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers
Kallimini	Wikidata: Q3192227 Wikispecies: Kallimini AFD: Kallimini BioLib: 128917 CoL: 93N4C Fauna Europaea: 441689 Fauna Europaea (new): 69f673ce-8c8a-40c2-bb6f-2c617099dbbc iNaturalist: 207918 ITIS: 694260 NCBI: 171577 Open Tree of Life: 803099

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