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Heliconius melpomene (Linnaeus, 1758)

Имаго  Heliconius melpomene

Taxonomy

class Insecta subclass Pterygota infraclass Neoptera superorder Holometabola order Lepidoptera superfamily Papilionoidea family Nymphalidae subfamily Heliconiinae tribe Heliconiini genus Heliconius → species Heliconius melpomene

Species name(s)

Heliconius melpomene (Linnaeus, 1758) = Papilio melpomene Linnaeus, 1758. [9, 85]

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:16506

Expansion

Zoogeographical regions

Nearctic.

Самец и самка  Heliconius melpomene

Detailed information with references

Distribution

  • From Central America to southern Brazil [125].

Larva food plants / other food objects

  • Passiflora [125].

Subspecies of Heliconius melpomene

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Alex Dumchus, Maxim Schwarz.

Text data: Vasiliy Feoktistov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov, Sergei Kotov.

References

Comments

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30.01.2014 13:51, Sergei Kotov Corrected data.

Zoogeographical regions: No formalized data → Nearctic.

30.01.2014 13:51, Sergei Kotov Corrected data.

Zoogeographical regions: Nearctic → No formalized data.

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