Protoploea

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Superfamilia: Papilionoidea

Familia: Nymphalidae
Subfamilia: Danainae
Tribus: Danaini
Subtribus: Euploeina
Genus: Protoploea
Species: (1)
P. apatela
Name

Protoploea Ackery & Vane-Wright, 1984.

Type species: Danaida apatela Joicey & Talbot, 1925.
Synonymy

Protoploea Ackery & Vane-Wright, 1984: 241.

References

Ackery, P.R. & Vane-Wright, R.I. 1984. Milkweed butterflies, their cladistics and biology. British Mueum (Natural History), London: i-ix, 1–425. ISBN 978-0-8014-1688-0. Reference page.
Joicey, J. & Talbot, G., 1925. Notes on some Lepidoptera, with descriptions of new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (9)16 (96): 633–653. Reference page.