FIGURE 98 in Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

FIGURE 98. Hybrid #64 (dorsal, ventral). Colombia: Huila, San José Isnos, 6 July (?) 1990, leg. J. Le Crom (Le Crom collection). Interpreted by Mallet et al. (2007) as a H. melpomene "{euryas}" x H. cydno cydno F1 backcross to H. cydno (see nomenclatural notes under #41). The locality where the specimen was collected is in the range of H. cydno lisethae (Fig. 99), and the submarginal FW spots suggest that it belongs to that race and not H. cydno cydno (Fig. 72; it is surprising that Mallet et al. 2007 coauthor Neukirchen did not notice this error). All the characters of this specimen are cydno-like except for the distal brick-red band on the forewing. Note, again, that this color does not appear in any Colombian H. melpomene.