Brassolini is a tribe

Tribe (biology)

In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank between family and genus. It is sometimes subdivided into subtribes.Some examples include the tribes: Canini, Acalypheae, Hominini, Bombini, and Antidesmeae.-See also:* Biological classification* Rank...

 usually placed in the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Morphinae

Morphinae

Morphinae is a subfamily of Nymphalidae butterflies that includes the morphos, the owl butterflies and related lineages. It is either considered a sister group of the Satyrinae, or disassembled and included therein.- Systematics :...

, which is often included in the Satyrinae

Satyrinae

Satyrinae, the satyrines or satyrids, commonly known as the Browns, is a subfamily of the Nymphalidae . They were formerly considered a distinct family, Satyridae. This group contains nearly half of the known diversity of brush-footed butterflies...

 as a tribe Morphini. If this is accepted, the Brassolini become the sister tribe of the Morphini among the Satyrinae. Formerly, they were treated as an independent family Brassolidae or subfamily Brassolinae. Many members of this tribe are called owl butterflies.

The Brassolini contain 17 genera

Genera

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 in two or three subtribes, depending whether the enigmatic genus Bia

Bia (butterfly)

Bia is a genus of butterflies, named by Hübner in 1819. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.-Species:Arranged alphabetically.*Bia actorion *Bia peruana Röber, 1904...

is assigned here as the most basal lineage. The other genera are divided into one small and more ancestral subtribe, and a more advanced one that unites the bulk of the genera.

Genera

Genera are listed in the presumed phylogenetic sequence.

Subtribe Biina (tentatively placed here)

• Bia
  Bia (butterfly)
  Bia is a genus of butterflies, named by Hübner in 1819. They are in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae.-Species:Arranged alphabetically.*Bia actorion *Bia peruana Röber, 1904...
  
  

Subtribe Naropina

• Aponarope
• Narope
  Narope
  Narope is a genus of Neotropical butterflies that includes species that present inconspicuously marking patterns on the wings. The genus include 17 species....
  
  

Subtribe Brassolina

• Brassolis
• Dynastor
• Dasyophthalma
• Opoptera (= Mimoblepia)
• Caligo – giant owl butterflies
• Caligopsis
• Eryphanis
• Selenophanes
• Penetes
• Catoblepia
• Mielkella
• Orobrassolis
• Blepolensis
• Opsiphanes
  • Opsiphanes blythekitzmillerae – Minerva Owl Butterfly
    Minerva owl butterfly
    Minerva owl butterfly is the common name for the butterfly species Opsiphanes blythekitzmillerae. In November 2007 an anonymous online auction bidder paid US$40,800 for the naming rights to the butterfly. It was named after Margery Minerva Blythe Kitzmiller of the U.S. state of Ohio, who died in 1972...