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Sara Longwing butterfly

Heliconius sara

Photo by davidchvo
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Field Notes

Habitat:

Amazonian Tropical Rainforest

Species ID Suggestions

Sara Longwing Butterfly

Heliconius sara

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Leucadia Longwing

Heliconius leucadia

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Comments (2)
bayucca
Another interesting link: http://tolweb.org/images/Heliconius_leucadia/72944
bayucca
Looks really very similar. I think this one is Leucadia not Sara. In Sara the white stripe at the edges are usually quite slim and in Leucadia you might see there some kind of notches towards the body.

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