Heliconius congener
Margarita Beltrán and Andrew V. Z. Brower
Introduction
A member of the sapho clade occurring on the Amazonian slope of the Andes from Colombia to Northern Peru. H. congener is involved in Müllerian mimicry with H. sara, H. leucadia and H. wallacei.
Characteristics
H. congener forms are black with yellow transverse forewing stripes, the bases of the dorsal wing surfaces being clothed in dark blue iridescent scales. Specimens of this species are most easily discriminated from similar-looking H. sara forms by the pattern of red spots/streaks on the ventral hindwing base. In H. sara there is a row of red spots along the anal margin of the hindwing, while in H. congener, the spots are confined to the wing base in a pattern reminiscent of that on H. sapho.
Geographical Distribution
Distribution of Heliconius congener and Heliconius eleuchia. © 2002 Margarita Beltran.
(NB: the legend is reversed on the map: red = H. congener; blue = H. eleuchia).
References
Brown, K. S., Jr. 1979 Ecologia Geográfica e Evolução nas Florestas Neotropicais. Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil: Universidade Estadual de Campinas.
Lamas, G. (ed.) 2004 Atlas of Neotropical Lepidoptera. Checklist: Part 4A Hesperioidea - Papiionoidea. Gainesville: Scientific Publishers/Association of Tropical Lepidoptera.
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| Specimen Condition | Dead Specimen |
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University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, USA
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- First online 18 February 2007
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