Putative H. charithonia x H. peruvianus hybrid

Hybrid #159 (not illustrated in Mallet et al. (2007). Ecuador: Pichincha, Río Toachi, 1700m. 1996 leg. C. Jiggins (Jiggins collection). This butterfly, documented by Jiggins & Davies (1998), has an H. charithonia phenotype (cf. Fig. 169), but a distribution of allozyme alleles that suggested to them an F1 hybrid between H. charithonia and H. peruvianus (Fig. 171). Mallet et al. (2007) interpreted it as backcross to H. charithonia, likely due to its homozygous condition of malic enzyme for an allele that is nearly absent from H. peruvianus . There are no fixed differences among the alleles examined by Jiggins & Davies (1998) between these two species, so it is possible that it is H. charithonia . (Also note that prior to Jiggins and Davies' study, H. peruvianus was viewed as a race of H. charithonia).

Identity: 0.9

Authenticity: 1.0

Overall reliability: 0.9