FIGURE 104 in Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

FIGURE 104. Hybrid #68 (dorsal, ventral). Colombia: Chocó, Río San Juan, Palestrina. 1988. leg. C. Farrell. Neukirchen Collection (FLMNH). Interpreted by Mallet et al. (2007) as a H. cydno zelinde (Fig. 105) x H. melpomene vulcanus (Fig,. 102) F1 backcross to H. cydno, based on the large white forewing band and completely expressed brown forceps on the HWV. The apparent source of this specimen, as well #69-#71 and #85 and #86, was Christopher Farrell, a commercial butterfly dealer who resided in Bogotá, Colombia in the 1980's (Johnson & Matusik, 1986; see also http:// insectnet.proboards.com/thread/441) (not Clive Farrell, owner of large butterfly houses in the U.S. and the U.K. with many captive-reared Heliconius). Given the commercial source, and that other specimens in the Neukirchen Collection are also of dubious authenticity, the parsimonious explanation is that this specimen was reared for the trade.