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This website provides interactive maps for visualising the phenotypes and geographic distributions of heliconiine butterflies, along with a portal for downloading the underlying data. In the maps available from the Home page, clicking on a point locality reveals a canonical phenotype selected from either www.butterfliesofamerica.com or Michel Cast's website The maps available on the iNaturalist page include additional data from iNaturalist, and clicking on those data reveals the default photo and a link for the iNat observation. The website and underlying data are described in Rosser and Mallet 2024. Trop. Lep. Research. 34, 104-107 and Rosser et al. 2012 Biol. J. Linn. Soc. 105, 479-497 . Please consider citing these papers if making use of this resource. The original .jpegs and .pngs presented in the 2012 paper are still online here.

Feedback, queries and data submissions to Neil Rosser (neil.rosser[at]miami.edu).