22-8-2021 SPACE MUSEUM, CUENCA - BUTTERFLY (Heliconius besckei)

Heliconius besckei is a neotropical borboleta of the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Heliconiinae, found in the interior of Brazil, in the central-west, in the tropical and subtropical humid Atlantic forest region of the northeast, southeast and south of the country , between Tocantins, Goiás, Mato Grosso do Sul, Minas Gerais and Bahia até o Rio Grande do Sul e chegando, to its geographic distribution, até Misiones, in Argentina. In Brazil, it may receive the vernacular name of Gravata, having been classified by Édouard Ménétries, with the name of Heliconia besckei, in 1857, from type specimens originating from Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro; described in text Enumeratio corporum animalium Musei Imperialis Academiae Scientiarum Petropilitanae. Classis Insectorum, Ordo Lepidopterorum. Their lizards feed on plants of the genus Passiflora (family Passifloraceae).