Heliconius telesiphe
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.
Telesiphe longwing | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Nymphalidae |
Genus: | Heliconius |
Species: | H. telesiphe |
Binomial name | |
Heliconius telesiphe (Doubleday, 1847) | |
Synonyms | |
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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]
Subspecies
- Heliconius telesiphe telesiphe (Bolivia)
- Heliconius telesiphe cretacea Neustetter, 1916 (Peru)
- Heliconius telesiphe sotericus Salvin, 1871 (Ecuador, Peru)
gollark: I can probably just grant you it manually at some point.
gollark: I just comparator the mana pool they feed into, and run them on a timer.
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gollark: In my previous games I just fed it from machine-produced TNT.
gollark: Though not very hard, you just feed gliders into it in sync, really.
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Heliconius telesiphe. |
- Heliconius telesiphe telesiphe. Inventory of the Butterflies of Sangay National Park (Ecuador)
- Heliconius telesiphe. Tree of Life Web Project.
- Knapp, S., and J. Mallet. 1998. A New Species of Passiflora (Passifloraceae) from Ecuador with notes on the natural history of its herbivore, Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Heliconiiti). Novon 162-166.
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