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title: "Julia Heliconian"
description: "Dryas iulia — Insetos e aranhas. Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia), commonly called the Julia butterfly, Julia heliconian, the flame, or flambeau, is a species of brush-footed (or nymphalid) butterfly."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/julia-heliconian
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Julia Heliconian

> Dryas iulia — Insetos e aranhas. Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia), commonly called the Julia butterfly, Julia heliconian, the flame, or flambeau, is a species of brush-footed (or nymphalid) butterfly.

- Scientific name: *Dryas iulia*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 28457
- Wikidata: [Q1768694](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1768694)
- iNaturalist taxon: [50073](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/50073)

## Names

- en: Julia Heliconian
- de: Julia
- es: Mariposa Julia
- fr: Flambeau
- nl: Oranje passiebloemvlinder

## Countries with the most observations

MX (4924), BR (4663), US (4557), SG (3475), CR (1788), CO (975), AR (810), EC (737), PA (627), PE (438), BO (310), DO (293)

## Summary

Dryas iulia (often incorrectly spelled julia), commonly called the Julia butterfly, Julia heliconian, the flame, or flambeau, is a species of brush-footed (or nymphalid) butterfly. The sole representative of its genus Dryas, it is native from Brazil to southern Texas and Florida, and in summer can sometimes be found as far north as eastern Nebraska. Over 15 subspecies have been described.
Its wingspan ranges from 82 to 92 mm, and it is colored orange (brighter in male specimens) with black markings; this species is somewhat unpalatable to birds and belongs to the "orange" Müllerian mimicry complex.
This butterfly…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dryas_iulia

## Photo

![Julia Heliconian](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/julia-heliconian/medium.jpg)

Photo: Drew Baxter · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/334230915

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/julia-heliconian?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).