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Morpho Lympharis
''Morpho lympharis'', the Lympharis morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Peru and Bolivia. Description ''Morpho lympharis'' is a large butterfly. The crystal-clear wings are suffused blue or iridescent pink. The reverse side is decorated with a row of ocelli. ''Morpho lympharis'' replaces '' M. portis'' in the Andean region, but has hitherto only been found in Peru and was described from Paucartambo Province. The male above somewhat darker blue than '' M. aega'' and with subapical white punctiform spots on the forewing. Underside of both wings with three ocelli, of which the apical and the two intermediate ones are elongate-oval in shape. Otherwise as ''M. portis''.Fruhstorfer, H., 1913. Family: Morphidae. In A. Seitz (editor), ''Macrolepidoptera of the world'', vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen. Taxonomy Blandin (1993), considers ''Morpho lympharis'' conspecific with ''Morpho sulkowskyi'' and that it is one of a north-south succession of subspecies spread from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chanchamayo Province
Chanchamayo (in hispanicized spelling) or Chanchamayu (Quechua language, Quechua ''chanchay'' to walk and leap about, to walk quickly and confused, ''chancha chancha'' to walk quickly and irregularly, ''shancha'' a kind of bird, ''mayu'' river)Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary) is a province in northern Junín Region, in central Peru. The name of the province derives from the river Chanchamayu, whose source is in the Andes, Andean Geography of Peru#Andean Mountain Ranges, Sierra and flows northwards becoming the Perené River. The province has an estimated population of 151,489 (2017 Peru Census, 2017), half of whom live in the provincial capital, La Merced, Junín, La Merced. Another important town in the province is San Ramón, Junín, San Ramón. Both towns are on the west side of the province, surrounded by mountains and close to tourist attractions like jungle forests ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Sulkowskyi
''Morpho sulkowskyi'', or Sulkowsky's morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Habitat ''Morpho sulkowskyi'' is a Tropical Andes cloud forest specialist (above 800 to 1,500 meters as high as 3500 meters). ''Morpho sulkowskyi'' and '' Morpho lympharis'' are the sole ''Morphos'' occupying this habitat. Taxonomy ''Morpho sulkowskyi'' and ''Morpho lympharis'' may be conspecific. There are several subspecies and many forms have been described. Subspecies *''Morpho sulkowskyi sulkowskyi'' V. Kollar, 1850 *''Morpho sulkowskyi hoppiana'' F.W. Niepelt, 1923 *''Morpho sulkowskyi selenaris'' E. Le Moult & P. Réal, 1962 *''Morpho sulkowskyi sirene'' F.W. Niepelt, 1911 Similar species It is very similar to, and maybe conspecific Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species. Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of char ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nymphalidae Of South America
The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world. Belonging to the superfamily Papilionoidea, they are usually medium-sized to large butterflies. Most species have a reduced pair of forelegs and many hold their colourful wings flat when resting. They are also called brush-footed butterflies or four-footed butterflies, because they are known to stand on only four legs while the other two are curled up; in some species, these forelegs have a brush-like set of hairs, which gives this family its other common name. Many species are brightly coloured and include popular species such as the emperors, monarch butterfly, admirals, tortoiseshells, and fritillaries. However, the under wings are, in contrast, often dull and in some species look remarkably like dead leaves, or are much paler, producing a cryptic effect that helps the butterflies blend into their surroundings. Nomenclature Rafinesque introduced ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho
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. ''Morpho'' wingspans range from for '' M. rhodopteron'' to for ''M. hecuba'', the imposing sunset morpho. The name ''morpho'', meaning "changed" or "modified", is also an epithet. Taxonomy and nomenclature Many names attach to the genus ''Morpho''. The genus has also been divided into subgenera. Hundreds of form, variety, and aberration names are used among ''Morpho'' species and subspecies. One lepidopteristLamas, G. (Ed.) (2004''Checklist: Part 4A. Hesperioidea-Papilionoidea''. Gainesville, Florida: Association for Tropical Lepidoptera. includes all such species within a single genus, and synonymized many names in a limited number of species. Two other lepidopterists use a phylogenetic analysis with different nomenclature. Other authoritie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holotype
A holotype is a single physical example (or illustration) of an organism, known to have been used when the species (or lower-ranked taxon) was formally described. It is either the single such physical example (or illustration) or one of several examples, but explicitly designated as the holotype. Under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN), a holotype is one of several kinds of name-bearing types. In the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) and ICZN, the definitions of types are similar in intent but not identical in terminology or underlying concept. For example, the holotype for the butterfly '' Plebejus idas longinus'' is a preserved specimen of that subspecies, held by the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. In botany, an isotype is a duplicate of the holotype, where holotype and isotypes are often pieces from the same individual plant or samples from the same gathering. A holotype is not necessarily "typ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Réal
Pierre Réal (1922 – 13 December 2009) was a French entomologist. He specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a professor at the Faculty of Besançon. Works His best known work is the book he wrote with Le Moult on the genus ''Morpho'', published as a supplement to the journal ''Novitates Entomologicae''. A list of 29 of his works is given by J. C. Robert. Genera and species he described 1953 * ''Anoplocnephasia'' * ''Brachycnephasia'' * ''Cnephasia alternella interjunctana'' * ''Cnephasia alternella parvana'' * ''Cnephasia alternella peyerimhoffi'' * ''Cnephasia alternella pseudochrysantheana'' * ''Cnephasia alternella rectilinea'' * ''Cnephasia alternella siennicolor'' * ''Cnephasia alternella vulgaris'' * ''Cnephasia alticola decaryi'' * ''Cnephasia alticola juncta'' * ''Cnephasia bizensis'' * ''Cnephasia canescana griseana'' * ''Cnephasia canescana grisescana'' * ''Cnephasia canescana montserrati'' * ''Cnephasia canescana venansoni'' * ''Cnephasia communana caprionica'' * ''C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eugène Le Moult
Eugène Le Moult (31 December 1882, Quimper – 26 January 1967, Paris) was a French naturalist and entomologist specialised in butterflies; hunter, businessman and collector. Le Moult grew up in the tropical prison colony of French Guiana, where his cash-strapped organic-farmer father had taken a post to develop the road network. Here the adolescent discovered the beauty of the area's ''Morpho'' butterflies, and set about hunting and selling them to mainland France. French Guiana's only butterfly exporter from 1903 to 1920, Le Moult turned his business into the country's third largest industry, after gold and precious woods. To enlarge his collection he started to recruit hunters. In Guyana, at the time, the question of labour was simple: you had to use convicts. Therefore, for those men in "striped shirts", hunting butterflies became the prize for good conduct. The Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman movie '' Papillon'' references this. Three years after moving back to Paris in 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloud Forests
A cloud forest, also called a water forest, primas forest, or tropical montane cloud forest (TMCF), is a generally tropical or subtropical, evergreen, montane, moist forest characterized by a persistent, frequent or seasonal low-level cloud cover, usually at the canopy level, formally described in the ''International Cloud Atlas'' (2017) as silvagenitus. Cloud forests often exhibit an abundance of mosses covering the ground and vegetation, in which case they are also referred to as mossy forests. Mossy forests usually develop on the saddles of mountains, where moisture introduced by settling clouds is more effectively retained. Cloud forests are among the most biodiversity rich ecosystems in the world with a large amount of species directly or indirectly depending on them. Other moss forests include black spruce/feathermoss climax forest, with a moderately dense canopy and a forest floor of feathermosses including ''Hylocomium splendens'', ''Pleurozium schreberi'' and ''P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropical Andes
The Tropical Andes is northern of the three climate-delineated parts of the Andes, the others being the Dry Andes and the Wet Andes. The Tropical Andes' area spans . Geography and ecology file:Andes_clima.png, 200px, Map of the climatic regions of the Andes. The tropical Andes are shown in green. The Dry Andes are shown in yellow and the Wet Andes in dark blue. The Tropical Andes are located in South America following the path of the Andes. They run, mainly, through five countries, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. The land initially was roughly but has decreased to , leaving 25% of the original land. Due to the massive amount of area the landscape is diverse. Diverse landscapes lead to diverse habitats and the ability to provide needed resources for many species. The diverse landscape includes snow-topped mountains down to canyons and valleys. The different vegetation as altitude changes includes tropical rainforests at , cloud forests ranging from , and the highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conspecific
Biological specificity is the tendency of a characteristic such as a behavior or a biochemical variation to occur in a particular species. Biochemist Linus Pauling stated that "Biological specificity is the set of characteristics of living organisms or constituents of living organisms of being special or doing something special. Each animal or plant species is special. It differs in some way from all other species...biological specificity is the major problem about understanding life." Biological specificity within ''Homo sapiens'' ''Homo sapiens'' has many characteristics that show the biological specificity in the form of behavior and morphological traits. Morphologically, humans have an enlarged cranial capacity and more gracile features in comparison to other hominins. The reduction of dentition is a feature that allows for the advantage of adaptability in diet and survival. As a species, humans are culture dependent and much of human survival relies on the culture and so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Arthur Gardiner Butler F.L.S., F.Z.S. (27 June 1844 – 28 May 1925) was an English entomologist, arachnologist and ornithologist. He worked at the British Museum on the taxonomy of birds, insects, and spiders. Biography Arthur Gardiner Butler was born at Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London. He was the son of Thomas Butler (1809–1908), assistant-secretary to the British Museum.Thomas Butler: He was educated at St. Paul's School,He was admitted 15-03-1854, according to: later receiving a year's tuition in drawing at the Art School of South Kensington. At the British Museum, he was appointed as an officer with two roles, as an assistant-keeper in zoology and as an assistant-librarian in 1879. Work He also published articles on spiders of Australia, the Galápagos, Madagascar, and other places. In 1859, he described the Deana moth. Bibliography Entomology *"Monograph of the species of ''Charaxes'', a genus of diurnal Lepidoptera". ''Proceedings of the Zoological Socie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Aega
''Morpho aega'', the Aega morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil. ''Morpho aega'' is a species group which may be composed of several species. Many subspecies have been described. Description ''M. aega'', one of the best known and in the male one of the commonest Morphids, shows a tendency, within its relatively narrow range of distribution, to interesting geographical variation. The name-type, ''aega'' Hbn. (66 b), probably came from the state of Rio de Janeiro, although according to von Bonninghausen the species does not occur in the town of Rio itself, but only in the north-west of the province of this name, and is probably distributed as far as Sta. Catharina. The female was first figured by Staudinger; it differs from our figure (mellinia, 66 b) in the darker colouring, the smaller transcellular patches of the forewing and the far larger submarginal spots of the hindwing. — ''mellinia'' Fruhst. differs from females from Rio de Jane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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