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Heliconiinae

subfamily of insects
Taxon taxon Q855355
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Summary

Heliconiinae is a taxon[1]. Heliconiinae ranks in the top 0.83% of taxon entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (348 views/month, #1,611 of 195,241).[2]

Key Facts

  • Taxon rank: subfamily[3]
  • Parent taxon: Nymphalidae[4]
  • Taxon name: Heliconiinae[5]
  • Commons category: Heliconiinae[6]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Heliconiinae[7]
  • Described by source: Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[8]
  • Taxon common name: Heliconians and Fritillaries[9], Parnas-kapellen[10], gestrekten[11]
  • This zoological name is coordinate with: Heliconiidae[12], Heliconiini[13], Heliconiina[14]
  • Homonymous taxon: Heliconiinae[15]

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Identifiers

Heliconiinae's iNaturalist taxon ID is recorded as 60854[16]. Heliconiinae's NCBI taxonomy ID is recorded as 40037[17]. Heliconiinae's ITIS TSN is recorded as 694053[18].

Why It Matters

Heliconiinae has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] Heliconiinae is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . Taxonomy database of the U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . BugGuide. wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 2d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Heliconians and Fritillaries'}, {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Parnas-kapellen'}, {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'gestrekten'}
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetreference-set:2| */ Taxon common name: Parnas-kapellen, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P356]]"
  2. 3d ago · YukiKoKo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Taxon common name → {'lang': 'en', 'text': 'Heliconians and Fritillaries'}, {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'Parnas-kapellen'}, {'lang': 'nl', 'text': 'gestrekten'}
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'be', 'da', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'fy', 'hu', 'it',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Taxon common name: Parnas-kapellen"
  3. 21w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent taxon → Nymphalidae
    Instance of → —
    Instance of → taxon
    This zoological name is coordinate with → Heliconiidae, Heliconiini, Heliconiina
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|7 */ Yso id: 5846, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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