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Heliconius hecale (Golden helicon butterfly)

Synonyms: Heliconius pasithoe; Papilio hecale

Wikipedia Abstract

The Tiger Longwing, Hecale Longwing, Golden Longwing, or Golden Heliconian (Heliconius hecale) is a Heliconiid butterfly that occurs from Mexico to the Peruvian Amazon.
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Infraspecies

Heliconius hecale clearei
Heliconius hecale felix
Heliconius hecale fraternitas
Heliconius hecale fulvescens
Heliconius hecale hecale
Heliconius hecale ithaca
Heliconius hecale latus
Heliconius hecale melicerta
Heliconius hecale novatus
Heliconius hecale rosalesi
Heliconius hecale shanki
Heliconius hecale vetustus
Heliconius hecale zuleika

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  .224 grams
Speed [1]  4.698 MPH (2.1 m/s)

Prey / Diet

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1FLIGHT PHYSIOLOGY OF NEOTROPICAL BUTTERFLIES: ALLOMETRY OF AIRSPEEDS DURING NATURAL FREE FLIGHT, ROBERT DUDLEY AND ROBERT B. SRYGLEY, J. exp. Biol. 191, 125–139 (1994)
♦ 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.
♦ 3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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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