FIGURE 103 in Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

FIGURE 103. Hybrid #67 (dorsal). Colombia (W. Colombia), leg. E. Krüger (MZPW). Interpreted (presumably on the basis of the locality data) by Mallet et al. as H. cydno chioneus (Fig. 60) x H. melpomene vulcanus (Fig. 102) F1. The HW submarginal band does not reach the margin, which does not reflect the typical pattern in H. cydno chioneus. The FW band in H. melpomene vulcanus is compact, well-defined and carmine-red, not the brick-red of the red patch here. The vague locality data on this specimen (label in image is illegible) render it difficult to interpret. It may be a hybrid between some alternative races, or possibly an atavistic mutant.