kingdom: Animalia >
phylum: Arthropoda >
class: Insecta >
order: Lepidoptera Linnaeus, 1758 >
superfamily: Papilionoidea >
family: Nymphalidae >
subfamily: Heliconiinae >
tribe: Heliconiini >
genus: Heliconius Kluk, 1802 >
species: Heliconius hecale (Fabricius, 1775) >