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Heliconius hecuba

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Nymphalidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Heliconius

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Similar
  
Heliconius hermathena, Heliconius ricini, Heliconius demeter, Heliconius hecalesia, Heliconius atthis

Heliconius hecuba, the Hecuba longwing, is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1000 to 2400 m in cloud forests in the northern Andes from Colombia to Ecuador.

The butterfly is named for Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of ancient Troy.

The larvae feed on plants from the genus Granadilla.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

  • H. h. bonplandi Neukirchen, 1991 (Ecuador)
  • H. h. cassandra C. & R. Felder, 1862 (Colombia)
  • H. h. choarina Hewitson, 1872 (Ecuador)
  • H. h. creusa H. & R. Holzinger, 1989 (Colombia)
  • H. h. crispus Staudinger, 1885 (Colombia)
  • H. h. flava Brown, 1979 (Ecuador)
  • H. h. hecuba Hewitson, 1858 (Colombia)
  • H. h. lamasi Neukirchen, 1991 (Ecuador)
  • H. h. salazari Neukirchen, 1993 (Colombia)
  • H. h. tolima Fassl, 1912 (Colombia)
  • H. h. walteri Salazar, 1998 (Colombia)

    • References

    Heliconius hecuba Wikipedia
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