heliconius by Massimo Demaio

hecalesia & longarena

H. hecalesia octavia    (H.W. Bates, 1866)

MALE – Sierra Mazateca, Mpio Jalapa de Diaz Rio Uluapan, 329-515m Oaxaca Mexico18/10/2008

FEMALE – Sierra Mazateca, Mpio Jalapa de Diaz Rio Uluapan, 329-515m Oaxaca Mexico18/10/2008

FEMALE – San Jeronimo Chiapas Mexico 4/8/1984

 

H. hecalesia formosus    (H.W. Bates, 1866)

MALE – Veraguas Alto de Piedra Panama 4/2009

FEMALE – Guapiles Costa Rica 8/2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

H. hecalesia hecalesia  (W.C. Hewitson, [1854])

MALE – Colombia

FEMALE – Otanche Colombia 12/1989

 
 
 
 

MALE – Otanche, Colombia 2/1992

MALE – hybrid with ssp. romeroi? more black HW – Otanche, Colombia 12/1989

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

H. longarena longarena   (W.C. Hewitson, 1875)

MALE – Calima Valley Colombia 24/4/1988

FEMALE – Cauca Tal Colombia

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

MALE – Calima Valley 1200m W. Colombia 15/6/1998

 
 
 
 
 

H. longarena gynaesia  (W.C. Hewitson, 1875)

MALE - Chocò Colombia

MALE – Chocò  Rio San Juan near meeting Rio Calima Colombia 1989

idem - VERSO

VERSO surface

 
 
 
 
 

hybrids longarena x hecalesia

more black in FW and less in HW – Rio Calima near Rio Bravo 1200m, Valle Colombia 5-8/1988 Coll. W. M. Neukirchen

spots in Cu1 typical of gynaesia – Bajo Calima – Rio Bravo 9-100m COLOMBIA 1986

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

H. longarena ‘ernestus’    (K.S. Brown & W.W. Benson, 1975) – hybrid longarena  x  gynaesia

MALE – Chocò Colombia 2008

Chocò COLOMBIA 2008 – ‘Calima version’ see Holzinger & Holzinger

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MALE Chocò Colombia 8/2009

FEMALE near gynaesia – see H&H Pl 39 4a – Chocò Colombia 2008
near heart-shaped spots in HW

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

H. longarena eximius  (H.F.E.J. Stichel, 1923)

MALE – El Triumfo Cañar, Ecuador 4/1991

FEMALE – Ecuador

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

hecalesia romeroi K.S. Brown & F. Fernández, 1985