Heliconius wallacei, the Wallace's longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Tryon Reakirt in 1866. It is found from Venezuela and Trinidad to southern Brazil and Peru. The habitat consists of lowland rainforests.Heliconius wallacei in learnbutterflies
The wingspan is 70–75 mm.Parque Nacional Sangay (Ecuador)
The larvae are gregarious and mostly feed on Passiflora species from the subgenus Distephana.TOL
Subspecies H. w. wallacei (Brazil: Pará) H. w. araguaia Brown, 1976 (Brazil: Goiás) H. w. colon Weymer, 1891 (Surinam, Brazil: Amazonas) H. w. flavescens Weymer, 1891 (Ecuador, Peru, Guyana, Bolivia) H. w. kayei Neustetter, 1929 (Trinidad) H. w. mimulinus Butler, 1873 (Colombia)
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