title: Heliconius telesiphe
text: # Heliconius telesiphe
  
  Heliconius telesiphe, the telesiphe longwing, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Edward Doubleday in 1847. It is found at mid-elevations in the Andes. Its habitat is cloud forests.
  
  The wingspan is 65–80 mm. The species is part of a mimicry complex with Podotricha telesiphe.
  
  The larvae mostly feed on Passiflora species from the subgenus Plectostemma. This species assisted in the 1993 discovery of Passiflora telesiphe, a species in the subgenus Decaloba.
  
  ## Subspecies
  
  * Heliconius telesiphe telesiphe (Bolivia)
  * Heliconius telesiphe cretacea Neustetter, 1916 (Peru)
  * Heliconius telesiphe sotericus Salvin, 1871 (Ecuador, Peru)
  