FIGURE 13 in Alternative facts: a reconsideration of putatively natural interspecific hybrid specimens in the genus Heliconius (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae)

FIGURE 13. Hybrid #11 (dorsal; ventral). Peru: Loreto, Río Itaya [near Iquitos]. 1997. Interpreted by Mallet et al. (2007) to be an F1 hybrid of H. numata aurora (Fig. 11) and H. melpomene malleti (Fig. 14), based on wing shape and the FW yellow band. This specimen, apparently collected near Iquitos, Peru by an unnamed third party is in the Neukirchen collection, purchased by the University of Florida's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity Research (FLMNH). The white marginal dots, the absence of red basal dots, and the v-shaped distal ends of the red rays on the VHW all suggest that a more likely cross would be H. numata x H. elevatus (e. g., H. elevatus pseudocupidineus, Fig. 3). While still interspecific, such a hybrid would be between very closely-related species, rather than more distantlyrelated members of separate clades.