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Heliconius
I am often asked for general reviews and reference
material on Heliconius. Here are some useful starters:
Non-specialist articles
- Crane J (1957) Keeping house for tropical butterflies. National Geographic Magazine 112(2):193-217.
- D'Abrera, B (1984) Butterflies of the Neotropical
region. Vol. Part II. Danaidae, Ithomiidae, Heliconidae & Morphidae. Hill
House, Ferny Creek, Victoria, Australia.
- De Vries, P (1986) The Butterflies of Costa
Rica. Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, NJ.
- Hiam, AW (1982) Airborne models and flying
mimics. Natural History 91 (No. 4, April), 42-49.
- Jones, FM (1930) The sleeping heliconias of
Florida. Natural. History 30, 635-644.
- Mallet, J (1997) Mimicry
in postman and rayed Heliconius from Peru.
- Mallet, J and Joron, M (2000) Mimicry
between polymorphic Heliconius numata and Melinaea (Ithomiinae).
- Milius, S (2001) Alarming butterflies and
go-better fish: overlooked ways to invent new species. Science News,
July 21, 2001.
- Murawski, DA (1993) A taste for poison. National
Geographic 184 (No. 6, December), 122-137.
- Smart, P (1976) The Illustrated Encyclopedia
of the Butterfly World. Hamlyn, London.
- Turner, JRG (1973) Passion flower butterflies.
Animals 15, 15-21.
- Turner, JRG (1975) A tale of two butterflies.
Natural History 84 (No. 2, February), 24-37. Nice
map!
- Wilson, P (2000) Heliconius
feeding on a Psiguria vine in Eastern Ecuador
Checklists and species databases
of Heliconiini
Blog and mailing list
Other web pages
with information on Heliconius
- Bates,
Henry Walter (1863) the first study of a Heliconius hybrid
zone
- Beebe et al. (1960) How
to tell the sex of Heliconius pupae.
- Beltrán, Margarita,
et al.: 'Tree of Life' systematic treatment of Heliconiini. Tree of Life Project now appears to be offline, so I have linked to the Wayback Machine version.
- Brown,
Keith S. (1979) Ecologia Geográfica e Evolução
nas Florestas Neotropicais. 2 vols. Universidade Estadual de Campinas,
Campinas, Brazil. (Parts of this out of print monograph are now available
on the web).
- Brown, Keith S. and Fernández Yépez, Francisco (1985)
Los Heliconiini (Lepidoptera, Nymphalidae) de Venezuela. Bol.
Entomol. Venez. N.S. 3(4):29-73 (This excellent but hard-to-find monograph
of heliconiines is now available on the web, profusely illustrated in
colour. NB: this has been rekeyed; there may be small orthographic differences).
PDF version
(warning 80 MB!).
- Gilbert, Lawrence,
Laboratory, UT Austin
- Jiggins, Chris: Heliconius genomics and evolution, University of Cambridge
- Joron, Mathieu: Evolution
of mimetic diversity in Heliconius numata, CNRS/CEFE Montpellier, France.
- Mallet, James &
Simpson, Fraser: Heliconius colour
pattern genetics -- broods
- Mallet, James (and colleagues):
Hybrids between species of Heliconius and Eueides butterflies
- Mallet,
James (and colleagues): Mutant Heliconius
- Mallet, James
(and colleagues): Recent publications
- Mallet,
James (and colleagues): Research
- Mallet,
J., Lamas, G. et al. Heliconiina and Ithomiinae near Tarapoto, Peru
- Rosser, Neil
& Mallet, J (in progress) Links to maps of subspecies and species
- Smiley,
John: PhD Thesis and other publications (1978-2015) on Heliconius
and Passiflora, flea beetles and other things
- Vanderplank, John: UK National
Passiflora Collection - larval food for Heliconius
General scientific publications
about Heliconius
- Beebe, William (1955) the first experimental crosses with Heliconius
erato and H. melpomene: Beebe,
W. (1955) Polymorphism in reared broods of Heliconius butterflies from
Surinam and Trinidad. Zoologica, N.Y. 40: 139-143, plates I-VI
- Beltrán, Margarita, et al. Phylogeny of Heliconius.
Beltrán,
M, Jiggins, CD; Brower, AVZ; Bermingham, E; Mallet, J (2007)
Do pollen feeding and pupal-mating have a single origin in Heliconius?
Inferences from multilocus sequence data. Biological Journal of the
Linnean Society 92: 221-239.
- Brown, KS (1981) The biology of Heliconius and related genera.
Ann. Rev. Entomol. 26, 427-456.
- Brower, AVZ (1996) Parallel race formation and the evolution of mimicry
in Heliconius butterflies: a phylogenetic hypothesis from mitochondrial
DNA sequences. Evolution 50, 195-221.
- Brower, AVZ; Egan, MG (1997) Cladistics of Heliconius butterflies
and relatives (Nymphalidae: Heliconiiti): the phylogenetic position
of Eueides based on sequences from mtDNA and a nuclear gene.
Proc. Royal Soc. Lond. B 264: 969-977.
- Bull, VJ (2003)
Genealogy and speciation in Heliconius butterflies. PhD thesis,
University of London.
- Crane J (1954) Spectral reflectance characteristics of butterflies (Lepidoptera) from Trinidad, B.W.I. Zoologica, New York 39:85-115.
- Crane J (1955) Imaginal behaviour of a Trinidad butterfly, Heliconius erato hydara Hewitson, with special reference to the social use of color. Zoologica, New York 40:167-196.
- Crane J (1957) Imaginal behavior in butterflies of the family Heliconiidae: changing social patterns and irrelevant actions. Zoologica, New York 42:135-145.
- Crane J (1957) Keeping house for tropical butterflies. National Geographic Magazine 112(2):193-217.
- Gilbert, LE (1975) Ecological consequences of a coevolved mutualism
between butterflies and plants. In: Coevolution of Animals and Plants.
(Eds: Gilbert, LE; Raven, PR) University of Texas Press, Austin, TX,
210-240.
- Gilbert, LE (1983) Coevolution and mimicry. Chap. 12. In: Coevolution.
(Eds: Futuyma,DJ; Slatkin,M) Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Mass.,
263-281.
- Gilbert, LE (1991) Biodiversity of a Central American Heliconius
community: pattern, process, and problems. Chap. 18. In: Plant-Animal
Interactions: Evolutionary Ecology in Tropical and Temperate Regions.
(Eds: Price,PW; Lewinsohn,TM; Fernandes,TW; Benson,WW) John Wiley, New
York, 403-427.
- Kozak, KM, et al. (2015) Multilocus species trees show the recent adaptive radiation of the mimetic Heliconius butterflies. Systematic Biology 64:505-524
- Mallet, J (1986) Gregarious roosting and home range in Heliconius
butterflies. Natl. Geogr. Res. 2, 198-215.
- Mallet,
J; Gilbert, LE (1995) Why are there so many mimicry rings? Correlations
between habitat, behaviour and mimicry in Heliconius butterflies.
Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 55, 159-180.
- Mallet, JLB; Turner, JRG. (1998) Biotic drift or the shifting balance: did forest islands drive the diversity of warningly coloured butterflies? In Grant, PR (ed.) Evolution on Islands. Oxford University Press. pp. 262-280.
- Naisbit,
RE (2001) Ecological divergence and speciation in Heliconius
cydno and H. melpomene. PhD thesis, University of London
- Papageorgis, C (1975) Mimicry in neotropical butterflies. American
Scientist 63, 522-532
- Sheppard PM, Turner JRG, Brown KS, Benson WW, Singer MC (1985) Genetics and the evolution of muellerian mimicry in Heliconius butterflies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences 308:433-613.
- Turner
JRG (1972) The genetics of some polymorphic forms of the butterflies
Heliconius melpomene (Linnaeus) and Heliconius erato
(Linnaeus). II. The hybridization of subspecies of H. melpomene
from Surinam and Trinidad. Zoologica, New York 56: 125-157
- Turner, JRG (1981) Adaptation and evolution in Heliconius:
a defense of neo-Darwinism. Ann. Rev. Ecol. Syst. 12, 99-121
- Turner, JRG (1984) Mimicry: the palatability spectrum and its consequences.
Chap. 14. In: The Biology of Butterflies. (Eds: Vane- Wright, RI; Ackery,
PR) (Symposia of the Royal Entomological Society of London, 11.) Academic
Press, London, 141-161.
- Turner
JRG, Crane J (1962) The genetics of some polymorphic forms of
the butterflies Heliconius melpomene Linnaeus and Heliconius
erato Linnaeus. I. Major genes. Zoologica, New York 47: 141-152
- Turner, JRG; Mallet, JLB (1996) Did forest islands drive the diversity
of warningly coloured butterflies? Biotic drift and the shifting balance.
Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. Lond. (B) 351, 835-845.
Plants associated with Heliconius: Passifloraceae and Cucurbitaceae
- Killip, EP (1938) The American Species of Passifloraceae. Publications of the Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 19:1-163
- Killip, EP. (1941) Passifloraceae. In: Flora of Suriname (Pulle, A., ed.), 306-327.
- Killip, EP. (1941): Passifloraceae. Passionflower family. In: Flora of Peru (ed. MacBride, JF). Field Museum of Natural History, Botanical Series 13, Part IV, No. 1:91-132.
Lepidoptera other than
Heliconius
Mimicry, warning
colour, aposematism
Portraits