Heliconius hecuba

Hecuba Longwing
Quito, Ecuador
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Heliconius
Species:	H. hecuba
Binomial name
Heliconius hecuba Hewitson, 1853[1]
Subspecies
11, see text
Synonyms
Heliconius cassandra C. & R. Felder, 1862 Heliconia choarina Hewitson, 1872 Blanchardia dismorphia Buchecker, [1880] Heliconia hecuba choarina f. cacica Neustetter, 1928 Heliconius tolima Fassl, 1912 Heliconius hecuba choarinus f. flava Neustetter, 1928 Heliconius crispus var. crespinus Krüger, 1925

The Hecuba Longwing (Heliconius hecuba) is a species of butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It lives in 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

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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