(c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
Heliconius melpomene (Linnaeus, 1758)
Brush-footed butterfly
FMNHINS 0000 124 345 · gbif-1142280867
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae › Heliconius
- Collected
- 2007-12-18
- Collector
- Not recorded
- Region
- Pará, Brazil
- Elevation
- Not recorded
- Sex / stage
- Indeterminate · Adult
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
- License
- CC0 1.0
Locality
Original label text
Santarém
AI-recommended
Santarém, Pará, Brazil
Curator-approved
Pending review
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “Netted along stream margin”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Aerial netting
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Collected along trail transect; habitat primary forest.
Digitization & audit history
- imaged · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142280867, occurrenceID 860baaa8-5e5f-4d70-b3f0-6e40e8b92d54. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID 860baaa8-5e5f-4d70-b3f0-6e40e8b92d54
Related specimens
Explore further

Heliconius erato (Linnaeus, 1758)
Brush-footed butterfly · Nymphalidae
El Roncon, 15 km E of Becerril, foothills of Sierra de Perija, Cesar, Colombia · 1969-09-19

Heliconius antiochus Linnaeus, 1767
Brush-footed butterfly · Nymphalidae
Estiron; Rio Ampiyacu, Loreto, Peru · 1961-11-13

Heliconius wallacei Reakirt, 1866
Brush-footed butterfly · Nymphalidae
Chácobo Indian Village on Rio Benicito, Beni, Bolivia · 1960-07-23

Heliconius erato demophoon
Brush-footed butterfly · Nymphalidae
confluence of Rio Araguaia and Rio Tapirapé, Mato Grosso, Brazil · 1960-12-10

Heliconius antiochus aranea (Fabricius, 1793)
Brush-footed butterfly · Nymphalidae
Puerto Berrío, Antioquia, Colombia · 1938-08-06
Heliconius thelxiopeia Staudinger, 1896
Brush-footed butterfly · Nymphalidae
Rio Negro, Brazil · 1994-01-06