Heliconius hecuba

Hecuba longwing
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Heliconius
Species:	H. hecuba
Binomial name
Heliconius hecuba Hewitson, 1853
Subspecies
11, see text
Synonyms
Heliconius cassandra C. & R. Felder, 1862 Heliconia choarina Hewitson, 1872 Blanchardia dismorphia Buchecker, [1880] Heliconia hecuba choarina f. cacica Neustetter, 1928 Heliconius tolima Fassl, 1912 Heliconius hecuba choarinus f. flava Neustetter, 1928 Heliconius crispus var. crespinus Krüger, 1925

Heliconius hecuba, the Hecuba longwing, is a species of butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It lives at altitudes ranging from 1000 to 2400 m in cloud forests in the northern Andes from Colombia to Ecuador.

The butterfly is named for Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of ancient Troy.

The larvae feed on plants from the genus Granadilla.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically:

• H. h. bonplandi Neukirchen, 1991 (Ecuador)
• H. h. cassandra C. & R. Felder, 1862 (Colombia)
• H. h. choarina Hewitson, 1872 (Ecuador)
• H. h. creusa H. & R. Holzinger, 1989 (Colombia)
• H. h. crispus Staudinger, 1885 (Colombia)
• H. h. flava Brown, 1979 (Ecuador)
• H. h. hecuba Hewitson, 1858 (Colombia)
• H. h. lamasi Neukirchen, 1991 (Ecuador)
• H. h. salazari Neukirchen, 1993 (Colombia)
• H. h. tolima Fassl, 1912 (Colombia)
• H. h. walteri Salazar, 1998 (Colombia)