FIGURE 69 in Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

FIGURE 69. Hybrid #37 (dorsal, ventral). Ecuador: Palmar, 100 m. Specimen collected by (or sold to Stichel by) Richard Haensch (a Berlin insect dealer who collected in Ecuador in 1899–1900), now housed in the NHMUK. Interpreted by Mallet et al. (2007) as H. melpomene cythera (Fig. 61) x H. cydno alithea (Fig. 62) F1 backcross to H. melpomene cythera, presumably on the basis of the white scales on the proximal edge of the forewing band. The yellow HWV stripe is also only faintly visible (an H. melpomene trait seen in intraspecific hybrid zones in eastern Panama). The pattern may be interpreted as Hybrid #33.