FIGURE 78 in Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

FIGURE 78. Hybrid #45 (dorsal, ventral). Colombia (no further data) (NHMUK). Syntype of H. rubellius Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1892. Interpreted by Ackery & Smiles (1976) as a hybrid between H. melpomene melpomene and H. cydno cydno. Interpreted by Mallet et al. (2007) as a H. melpomene "{euryas}" (Fig. 73) x H. cydno cydno (Fig. 72) F1 (see nomenclatural notes under Hybrid #41). The faintness and proximal shift of the HW submarginal band on the dorsal surface is unlike other putative F1 crosses of these two races (but see F1 in Fig. 56). There appears to be a shadow of a subcostal band on the HWV that is reminiscent of that seen in H. cydno weymeri Staudinger, 1896, from the Cauca Valley, where no form of H. melpomene occurs. Given the lack of specific locality data, it is difficult to interpret what this specimen is.