Heliconius

MIMICRY The Brazilian butterfly known as Heliconius numata has seven different wing patterns, each of which mimics that of a differ- ent local species of butterflies.

NYT > Home Page By NICHOLAS WADE 2011

The genes that make a fruit fly's eyes red also produce red wing patterns in the Heliconius butterfly found in South and Central America, finds a new study by a UC Irvine entomologist ….

2007 October - Telic Thoughts 2007

The hybrid butterfly, Heliconius heurippa, inherited yellow wing markings from one parent species and red from the other.

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Now, in a much warmer climate, Luana is studying the wing color patterns of the Heliconius butterflies to understand how evolutionary processes generate diversity.

Meet Luana Maroja: Evolutionary Biology Specialist « AAUW Dialog 2009

Dr. Mallet's seminar was about the speciation processes in Heliconius butterflies of South America and whether or not these butterflies speciate in allopatry or sympatry.

Archive 2006-05-01 AYDIN 2006

Heliconius melpomene picture from James Mallet's page.

Archive 2006-05-01 AYDIN 2006

For example, bird predation maintains the colorations of Heliconius cydno, which has different coloration in different regions, in both regions mimicking a noxious Heliconius species Kapan 2001.

DNA and RNA (and Birdnow). - The Panda's Thumb 2005

Haven't I enough eggs of _Heliconius salome_ hatching to give me the Carnegie medal if

Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899

The four Brazilian species are _Lycorea halia_ (Danainae), _Heliconius narcaea_ (_eucrate_) (Heliconinae), _Melinaea ethra_, and _Mechanitis lysimnia_ (Ithomiinae).

Evolution in Modern Thought Gustav Schwalbe 1880

Heliconius and Eueides, the other (the Danaoid Heliconinae) of no less than sixteen genera; and, in the instances of mimicry we are now discussing, one of the pairs or triplets that resemble each other is usually a species of the large and handsome genus Heliconius, the others being species of the genera Mechanitis, Melinaea, or Tithorea, though several species of other Danaoid genera also imitate each other.

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868