Heliconius nattereri C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865
Natterer's longwing
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Rediscovered in 1970 or before
IUCN status: Critically Endangered
Distribution
Brazil (eastern)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Felder, C. and Felder, R. (1860). Lepidopterologische Fragmente. V-VI Wien. ent. Monats. 4 (4): 97-112, pl. 1-2, (8): 225-251, pl. 3-4.
Other references:
Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (eds). (1996). 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. pp. 378. International Union for Conservation of Nature, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
BROWN, K.S. 1970. Rediscovery of Heliconius nattereri in eastern Brazil [The heliconians of Brazil (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part I]. Entomol. News 81:129-140.
BROWN, K.S. 1972. The heliconians of Brazil (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Part III. Ecology and biology of Heliconius nattereri, a key primitive species near extinction, and comments on the evolutionary development of Heliconius and Eueides. Zoologica 57:41-69.
Cardoso, Márcio Zikán, Brito, Marcos Roberto and Lion, Marília Bruzzi. (2017). Confirmation of the northermost population of the endangered butterfly Heliconius nattereri C. Felder & R. Felder, 1865 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae). Biota Neotropica 17(4): e20170413.
EMSLEY, M.G. 1965. Speciation in Heliconius (Lep.: Nymphalidae): morphology and geographic distribution. Zoologica 50:191-254.
Groombridge, B. (ed.). 1994. 1994 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
IUCN. 1990. IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Massardo, Darli; VanKuren, Nicholas W.; Nallu, Sumitha; Ramos, Renato R.; Ribeiro, Pedro G.; Silva-Brandão, Karina L.; Brandão, Marcelo M.; Lion, Marília B.; Freitas, André V. L.; Cardoso, Márcio Z.; Kronforst, Marcus R. (2020). The roles of hybridization and habitat fragmentation in the evolution of Brazil's enigmatic longwing butterflies, Heliconius nattereri and H. hermathena. BMC Biology. 18 (1): 84. doi:10.1186/s12915-020-00797-1
Wells, S.M., Pyle, R.M. and Collins, N.M. (compilers) 1983. The IUCN Invertebrate Red Data Book. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
World Conservation Monitoring Centre. (1996). Heliconius nattereri. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 1996: e.T9804A13018123. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T9804A13018123.en. Downloaded on 27 January 2018.
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