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Red Postman Caterpillar

Heliconius erato

Description:

Nice white/orange/black caterpillar found on a passion fruit leaf.

1 Species ID Suggestions

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago
Red Postman Caterpillar
Heliconius erato File:Heliconius erato caterpillar2.jpg


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6 Comments

rubens.luciano
rubens.luciano 12 years ago

Bayucca, I think your suggestion is right, thank you. The butterfly is common here.

bayucca
bayucca 12 years ago

There is another link from Costa Rica:
http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu/Wadults/resu...

Eva Varga
Eva Varga 12 years ago

Awesome! :)

rubens.luciano
rubens.luciano 12 years ago

It is very similiar to this one http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/655... that I spotted some time ago.

rubens.luciano
rubens.luciano 12 years ago

Hi auntnance,

I never saw a zebra longwing butterfly here.

auntnance123
auntnance123 12 years ago

It looks like a zebra longwing butterfly caterpillar; the general appearance and the host plant match, but the orange spots are throwing me off.

rubens.luciano
Spotted by
rubens.luciano

São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil

Spotted on Oct 12, 2011
Submitted on Oct 12, 2011

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