Heliconius hecuba
Hecuba longwing | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Heliconius |
Species: | H. hecuba |
Binomial name | |
Heliconius hecuba | |
Subspecies | |
11, see text | |
Synonyms | |
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Heliconius hecuba, the Hecuba longwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1000 to 2400 m in cloud forests in the northern Andes from Colombia to Ecuador.[2]
The butterfly is named for Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of ancient Troy.
The larvae feed on plants from the genus Granadilla.[2]
Subspecies
[edit]Listed alphabetically:[1]
- 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
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- ^ a b Heliconius hecuba at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- ^ a b Heliconius hecuba, EoL