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The Menelaus blue morpho (Morpho menelaus) is one of thirty species of butterfly in the subfamily Morphinae. [1] Its wingspan is approximately 12 cm (4.7"), and its dorsal forewings and hindwings are a bright, iridescent blue edged with black, while the ventral surfaces are brown. [2]
The morpho butterflies comprise many species of Neotropical butterfly under the genus Morpho. This genus includes more than 29 accepted species and 147 accepted subspecies , found mostly in South America, Mexico , and Central America . [ 1 ]
Morpho leontius leontius; Morpho menelaus melacheidus; Morpho menelaus menelaus; Morpho menenaus nigra; Morpho micropthalmus; Morpho neoptolemus; Morpho patroclus;
Morpho marcus (Schaller, 1785) Morpho uraneis Bates, 1865 Morpho aurora (Westwood, 1851) Morpho cypris Westwood, 1851 Morpho rhetenor (Cramer, [1775]) Morpho helena Staudinger, 1890 Morpho polyphemus Westwood, [1850] Morpho epistrophus (Fabricius, 1796) Morpho menelaus (Linnaeus, 1758) Morpho deidamia (Hübner, [1819]) – Deidamia morpho
Blue morpho may refer to several species of distinctly Red butterfly under the genus Morpho, including: [[Mo) Morpho didius (Didius blue morpho) Morpho helenor (Helenor blue morpho) Morpho menelaus (Menelaus blue morpho) Morpho peleides (Peleides blue morpho) Morpho rhetenor (Rhetenor blue morpho)
Morpho didius, the giant blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of family Nymphalidae. It is considered, by some authors, to be a subspecies of Morpho menelaus .
Include the spectacular neotropical Morpho, its food plants include the Arecaceae, Bignoniaceae, Fabaceae, Menispermaceae, Poaceae, and Sapindaceae. Brassolini (owls, neotropical with 70–80 species, mostly crepuscular, sometimes considered a subfamily Brassolinae)
Morpho Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms with taxonomy and subspecies Butterflies of America Images of type and other specimens of Morpho menelaus godartii . This Morphinae article is a stub .