Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley : Lepidoptera: Heliconidae / by Henry Walter Bates.

  • Henry Walter Bates
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1862
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Credit: Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley : Lepidoptera: Heliconidae / by Henry Walter Bates. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the order Lepidoptera, as being the perfection of the Lepidopterous type. This position might be disputed with them by the Satyrince on account of the degree of atrophy of the fore legs, which is perhaps as great in some species of Satyrince as it is in the most advanced genera of Danaoid Heliconidce. The order of affinities does not range in a line; there are branches; and so it may happen that two groups may be nearly equal in their grade of perfection through each standing at the head of its branch. The true relationships of the groups of Rhopalocera may be therefore better explained by a diagram. Danaoid Heliconidce Dana'inse Satyrinae I Brassolinse Acrseinse . I . Heliconinae Nymphalinae Libythaeinae Stalachtinae Ervcininae . I Lycaenidae I Pierinae I.. Papilioniuae Hesperidae HETEROCERA (Moths). Subfamily DANAINiE. A. DanAiN.® proper (Dana'idce of authors). Genus Danais, Latreille. 1. Danais Erippus, Cramer. Papilio Erippus, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 3. f. A, B. A common and well-known insect. It is found in waste grounds and open places everywhere throughout the region of the Lower Amazons. Its larva feeds on Asclepias Curassovica. 2. Danais Gilippus, Cramer. Papilio Gilippus, Cram. Pap. Exot. t. 26. f. C, D. This is a rarer species than the foregoing. It is found in similar situations at Para.
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