Critically Endangered
Natterer's Longwing
Heliconius nattereri
Natterer's Longwing is a brush-footed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae (order Lepidoptera) — Heliconius nattereri, recorded as Critically Endangered and tied to Brazil.
Appearance
The wings of the female H. Nattereri are black, orange, and yellow in color, while the male wings are a black and yellow pattern.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to the Atlantic forest of Brazil. The butterfly has been found in the Feliciano Miguel Abdala Private Natural Heritage Reserve in the state of Minas Gerais. This is due to their unique habitat that is currently being invaded by humans and activities such as deforestation.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The adult is what most collections hold. The larva — the feeding stage — is often undescribed for the rarest names.
Life history follows the order: complete metamorphosis in moths and beetles, nymphs in grasshoppers and bugs. This page does not invent a host plant that no source named.
In crisis
The H. Nattereri species is currently listed as endangered.
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Natterer's Longwing is Critically Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Natterer's Longwing, Wikidata item Q2715066. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
