''Heliconius atthis'', the false zebra longwing or Atthis longwing, is a species of '' Heliconius''

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. It is endemic to western

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.''Heliconius atthis''
at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' False Zebra Longwing

Is a

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of the zebra longwing (''

Heliconius charithonia ''Heliconius charithonia'', the zebra longwing or zebra heliconian, is a species of butterfly belonging to the subfamily Heliconiinae of the family Nymphalidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of ''Systema Natura ...

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atthis Nymphalidae of South America Butterflies of South America Butterflies described in 1847 {{Heliconiinae-stub