Subgenus
Agraulis
Dione vanillae. Photo: (c) Mary Keim, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA)
The Gulf fritillary or passion butterfly (Agraulis vanillae) is a bright orange butterfly of the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Heliconiinae. That subfamily was formerly set apart as a separate family, the Heliconiidae. The Heliconiinae are “longwing butterflies”, which have long, narrow wings compared to other butterflies. Gulf fritillary is the only member of genus Agraulis.
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