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Sara Longwing

Heliconius sara sprucei

Notes:

Unknown species of butterfly. Seen in Ecuador.

2 Species ID Suggestions

Doris Longwing
Heliconius doris TrekNature | Heliconius doris Photo
bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago
Sara Longwing
Heliconius sara sprucei Heliconius sara sprucei (type specimens)


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4 Comments

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

Please, update your spotting, thanks!

LarryGraziano
LarryGraziano 12 years ago

I can see why jason thought it was the Doris...the treknature page has it wrong. When you do the google search it comes up as the 2nd photo. Good try Jason. I have to agree with bayucca.
Beautiful sighting and beautiful butterfly, thanks for sharing this one!

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

Not Doris, but Sara. A very interesting and rare subspecies of Sara. Heliconius sara sprucei.

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Beautiful!

sreischel61
Spotted by
sreischel61

Parroquia Salango, Santa Elena, Ecuador

Spotted on Feb 19, 2010
Submitted on Apr 23, 2011

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