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Heliconius erato demophoon
Brush-footed butterfly
FMNHINS 0000 124 339 · gbif-1142465353
- Classification
- Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae › Heliconius
- Collected
- 1960-12-10
- Collector
- B. Malkin
- Region
- Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Elevation
- Not recorded
- Sex / stage
- Indeterminate · Adult
- Dataset
- Field Museum Insect Collection (GBIF)
- License
- CC0 1.0
Locality
Original label text
confluence of Rio Araguaia and Rio Tapirapé
AI-recommended
confluence of Rio Araguaia and Rio Tapirapé, Mato Grosso, Brazil
Curator-approved
Pending review
Collection event
- Method (original)
- “Hand collected on flowers of Lantana”
- Method (AI-normalised)
- Hand collection
- Habitat
- Not recorded
- Label transcription
- Not recorded
Field notes & curator annotations
- Associated with secondary growth at forest edge.
Digitization & audit history
- imaged · 2026-10-20 · Collections database
Provenance
Retrieved 2026-10-20 via GBIF Occurrence API, GBIF occurrence 1142465353, occurrenceID a0dcd8e8-bdc5-4f2f-bbb0-b52105c744cd. Rights holder: The Field Museum of Natural History.
occurrenceID a0dcd8e8-bdc5-4f2f-bbb0-b52105c744cd
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