Heliconius telesiphe

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Telesiphe longwing
Telesiphe longwing (Heliconius telesiphe sotericus) San Isidro.jpg
Telesiphe longwing (Heliconius telesiphe sotericus) underside San Isidro.jpg
both H. t. sotericus
in Ecuador
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Heliconius
Species:
H. telesiphe
Binomial name
Heliconius telesiphe
(Doubleday, 1847)
Synonyms
  • Heliconia telesipheDoubleday, 1847
  • Heliconius sotericusSalvin, 1871
  • Heliconius telesiphe ab. niveaKaye, 1916

Heliconius telesiphe, the telesiphe longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Edward Doubleday in 1847. It is found at mid-elevations in the Andes. Its habitat is cloud forests.

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The wingspan is 65–80 mm. [1] The species is part of a mimicry complex with Podotricha telesiphe .

The larvae mostly feed on Passiflora species from the subgenus Plectostemma. [2] This species assisted in the 1993 discovery of Passiflora telesiphe , a species in the subgenus Decaloba. [3]

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