Heliconius wallacei

Wallace's longwing
Dorsal view
Ventral view
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Heliconius
Species:	H. wallacei
Binomial name
Heliconius wallacei (Reakirt, 1866) [1]
Synonyms
Heliconius clytia ab. parvimaculataRiffarth, 1900 Heliconius clytia f. flavescens ab. wucherpfennigiKrüger, 1933 Heliconius wallacei ab. erichiKrüger, 1933 Heliconius mimulinusButler, 1873 Heliconius clytia var. colonWeymer, 1891 Heliconius clytia var. sulphureaStaudinger, [1897] Heliconius hagarKirby, [1900] Heliconius wallacei f. quadrimaculataNeustetter, 1925 Heliconius clytia f. flavescens ab. graphiticaKrüger, 1933 Heliconius wallacei f. inezStammeshaus, 1982 Heliconius clytia var. colonWeymer, 1891 Papilio clytiaCramer, 1776 (preocc. Linnaeus, 1758) Heliconius clytia var. elsaRiffarth, 1899 Heliconius wallacei brevimaculata ab. halliKaye, 1919 Heliconius wallacei latusKaye, 1925 (preocc. Riffarth, 1900)

Heliconius wallacei, the Wallace's longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Tryon Reakirt in 1866. It is found from Venezuela and Trinidad to southern Brazil and Peru. The habitat consists of lowland rainforests. ^[2]

The wingspan is 70–75 mm. ^[3]

The larvae are gregarious and mostly feed on Passiflora species from the subgenus Distephana . ^[4]

Subspecies

• H. w. wallacei (Brazil: Pará)
• H. w. araguaiaBrown, 1976 (Brazil: Goiás)
• H. w. colonWeymer, 1891 (Surinam, Brazil: Amazonas)
• H. w. flavescensWeymer, 1891 (Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Bolivia)
• H. w. kayeiNeustetter, 1929 (Trinidad)
• H. w. mimulinusButler, 1873 (Colombia)

References

1. Heliconius wallacei at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
2. Heliconius wallacei in learnbutterflies
3. Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
4. TOL