Danaini

Danaini
"Tiger butterflies" of genera Ideopsis (top), Danaus (lower center/left) and Parantica (others)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Danainae
Tribe: Danaini
Boisduval, 1833[1]
Diversity
2 subtribes, 11 extant genera

The Danaini are a tribe of brush-footed butterflies (family Nymphalidae). The tribe's type genus Danaus contains the well-known monarch butterfly (D. plexippus) and is also the type genus of the tribe's subfamily, the milkweed butterflies (Danainae).

The Danaini do not have a fixed colloquial name for the entire tribe, but in particular for subtribe Danaina the term tiger butterflies is occasionally used in reference to the numerous species in several genera.

  1. ^ "Danaini". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 26 October 2017.