Sara Longwing (Heliconius sara)

Fazenda Grotão - DF, Brazil.

 

These beautiful blue shades on the wings of Heliconius sara are purely iridescence, or structural coloration. The wings need to be at just the right angle to fully reveal these stunning colors.

 

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Insecta

Order: Lepidoptera

Superfamily: Papilionoidea

Family: Nymphalidae

Subfamily: Heliconiinae

Tribe: Heliconiini

Genus: Heliconius Kluk, 1780

Species: H. sara (Fabricius, 1793)

Binomial name: Heliconius sara

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