Heliconius eratosignis
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Heliconius |
| Species: | H. eratosignis
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| Binomial name | |
| Heliconius eratosignis (J.J. Joicey & G. Talbot 1925)
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Heliconius eratosignis, the eratosignis longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Joicey & Talbot in 1925[1]. It is found in the South-Western Amazon basin, from Brazil to Peru and Bolivia[2]. The habitat consists of sandy rainforests.
The larvae are gregarious and feed on Passiflora subgenera Astrophea and Mitostemma species. Full-grown larvae have a yellow body with black bands and a black head [2]. They reach a length of about 20 mm.
Adult H. eratosignis are distinguished morphologically from their sister species Heliconius demeter because they lack a yellow streak on the base of the forewing costa underside [2]; in contrast, H. eratosignis has a solid orange basal costal margin on the underside of the forewing. Brown & Benson in 1975 argued the two forms were the same species, but recorded both H. eratosignis gregarious and H. demeter solitary larvae in their paper [3]
Etymology
The species is presumably named because the species is rather difficult to distinguish from Heliconius erato.
Subspecies
- H. e. eratosignis (Joicey & Talbot, 1925) (Eueides) (Brazil (MT))
- H. e. tambopata Lamas, 1985 (Peru)
- H. e. ucayalensis H. Holzinger & R. Holzinger, 1975 (Peru)
- H. e. ulysses K.S. Brown & Benson, 1975 (Bolivia)
References
- ^ J.J. Joicey & G. Talbot. 1925. Notes on some Lepidoptera with descriptions of new forms. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9, Vol. 16: 633-653
- ^ a b c Rosser, Neil; Freitas, André V. L.; Huertas, Blanca; Joron, Mathieu; Lamas, Gerardo; Mérot, Claire; Simpson, Fraser; Willmott, Keith R.; Mallet, James; Dasmahapatra, Kanchon K. (2019). "Cryptic speciation associated with geographic and ecological divergence in two Amazonian Heliconius butterflies". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 186 (1): 233–249. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly046.
- ^ Brown, K.S., & Benson, W.W. 1975. The heliconians of Brazil (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part VI. Aspects of the biology and ecology of Heliconius demeter with description of four new subspecies. Bulletin of the Allyn Museum 26:1-19. https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/files/7213/9455/2950/McGuire-AME026.pdf
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