''Heliconius atthis'', the false zebra longwing or Atthis longwing, is a species of ''

Heliconius ''Heliconius'' comprises a colorful and widespread genus of brush-footed butterflies commonly known as the longwings or heliconians. This genus is distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from South America ...

butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight. The oldest butterfly fossi ...

. It is endemic to western

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and the

Tumbes National Reserve Tumbes National Reserve is a protected area established in 2006 and located in the region of Tumbes, Peru; near the border with Ecuador. It spans an area of and along with Cerros de Amotape National Park and El Angolo Game Preserve is part of th ...

in Northern

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.''Heliconius atthis''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' False Zebra Longwing

Is a

mimic In evolutionary biology, mimicry is an evolved resemblance between an organism and another object, often an organism of another species. Mimicry may evolve between different species, or between individuals of the same species. In the simples ...

of the zebra longwing (''

Heliconius charithonia ''Heliconius charithonia'', the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of ''Systema Natura ...

'').

References

atthis Nymphalidae of South America Endemic fauna of Ecuador Butterflies described in 1847 Taxa named by Edward Doubleday Lepidoptera of Ecuador {{Heliconiinae-stub