Heliconiini occurrence database

Summary

This repository contains georeferenced occurrence data for heliconiine butterflies needed to reproduce the analyses presented in this research paper:

“Pérochon et al., 2025 - Müllerian mimicry in Neotropical butterflies: One mimicry ring to bring them all, and in the jungle bind them” 

Associated archives

Distribution maps generated from distribution models ran on these occurrences data are available in an other associated archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10903661.

Phenotypic classification applied in this study can be found in this archive: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10903197.

Scripts to reproduce these maps are available on Github at https://github.com/EddiePerochon/Heliconiini_Diversity.

Contents

This repository contains an Excel file with 67,563 curated georeferenced occurrence records and associated metadata in separated tabs.

Contact

:email: For any questions, contact the corresponding author: Maël Doré

How to cite

Please cite this research article as:

Pérochon, E., Rosser, N., Kozak, K., McMillan, W.O., Huertas, B., Mallet, J., Ready J., Willmott, K., Elias, M. & Doré, M. (2025). Müllerian mimicry in Neotropical butterflies: One mimicry ring to bring them all, and in the jungle bind them. In prep. https://doi.org/10.1111/000000