Reference photo of a pinned Heliconius doris specimen, upper side

Reference photo

Photo: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London · Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 (cropped and resized). Not the specimen in Lucy’s drawer.

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Heliconius doris

(Linnaeus, 1771)

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Your framed specimen is a different individual of the same species, chosen and mounted by Lucy.

  • Nymphalidae
  • Butterfly
For young explorers

Some have red patches on their back wings, and some have blue.

Females often gather to lay their eggs on the same passion vine, and the caterpillars feed together in large groups.

Catalog label
Family
Nymphalidae
Subfamily
Heliconiinae
Tribe
Heliconiini
Where it lives
Mexico - Amazon Basin

From the catalog of Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD. A mounted specimen from a licensed supplier.

Research notes

From published sources, not from Lucy’s catalog. Each note lists where it came from.

Habitat

A regional species account from Tolima, Colombia, shared through GBIF, records this butterfly inside tropical dry and very dry forest. Writing about the longwing genus as a whole, the Florida Museum says these butterflies fly in sunny places and along the edges of tropical forests. That second point describes the genus in general, not this species in particular.

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