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Heliconius burneyi

Synonyms: Migonitis burneyi

Wikipedia Abstract

Heliconius burneyi, Burney's longwing, is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It was described by Hübner in 1831. It is found in the Amazon Basin. The habitat consists of tall forests. The larvae are gregarious and mostly feed on Passiflora species from the subgenera Astrophea and Distephana. Full-grown larvae have a maroon and black body with a black head and reach a length of about 10 mm.
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Infraspecies

Heliconius burneyi ada
Heliconius burneyi burneyi
Heliconius burneyi catharinae
Heliconius burneyi huebneri
Heliconius burneyi jeanneae
Heliconius burneyi lindingii
Heliconius burneyi miraculosa
Heliconius burneyi reducta
Heliconius burneyi roseni
Heliconius burneyi serpensis

Prey / Diet

Passiflora aurantia (scarlet passionflower)[1]
Passiflora candida[2]
Passiflora coccinea (Scarlet passionflower)[2]
Passiflora vitifolia (perfumed passionflower)[1]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0