Photographed in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest of Minais Gerais, June 2000 /Marko Laakkonen

 

The butterfly is a rather large species, as this picture illustrates.
Here the coloration, especially in the hindwings,  is more natural, as the picture is not as strongly contre-jour as the one above.
It's all in the light.

Did you identify the species? Is it a true heliconius, a danaine, or a mimic?

One reply stated that it was a Danaine: Lycorea cleobaea s. sp, a primitive Danaina (a familly close to Ithomiine).

I would like to thank Jorge of CuritibaBrazil for his contribution.

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Yours,

Marko Laakkonen