wingspan : 78 mm
Heliconius numata is a butterfly from the Amazon Basin, and it enjoys an incredible number of subspecies - thirty in Holzinger’s book !
Heliconius numata lenaeus flies in the Southern part of Ecuador Oriente ; seen on the Sardinayacu trail, at Pablo Sexto and near Palora, 700/1350 m.
in all those places H. n. lenaeus flies together with H. n. bicoloratus, and we only saw one possible "cross-breed"; it is not obvious that they be ssp of the same species ?
see https://www.andean-butterflies-mapping-the-phenotypes.eu/heliconius-numata/
pictures taken between Palora and Pablo Sexto (less than 50 km NS).
