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Morpho Menelaus
The Menelaus blue morpho (''Morpho menelaus'') is one of thirty species of butterfly in the subfamily Morphinae. Its wingspan is approximately , and its dorsal forewings and hindwings are a bright, iridescent blue edged with black, while the ventral surfaces are brown. Its iridescent wings are an area of interest in research because of its unique microstructure. Due to its characteristic blue color, ''Morpho menelaus'' is considered valuable among collectors and was widely hunted in the 20th century. Range This neotropical butterfly is found in Central and South America, including the Cerrado which is a vast tropical savanna in Brazil. Other locations include Mexico and Venezuela. Ancestors of the ''Morpho'' ''menelaus'' butterfly may have been distributed in the Andean regions. Morpho menelaus is one of the six species of Morpho in Costa Rica. The genus of Morpho is present in regions beginning in Mexico and throughout South America, except Chile. Moreover, the Morpho menelau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Didius
''Morpho didius'', the giant blue morpho, is a Neotropical The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone. Definition In bioge ... butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of family Nymphalidae. It is considered, by some authors, to be a subspecies of ''Morpho menelaus''. Description ''Morpho didius'' has a wingspan reaching , making it one of the largest of ''Morpho'' species. The dorsal side of the wings are iridescent and metallic blue, and the forewings are quite elongated. Distribution This species can be found in Peru. Biology The Caterpillar, larva feeds on palm trees. ReferencesBioLib.cz [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Godarti
''Morpho godarti'', or Godart's morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Peru and Bolivia. Etymology The butterfly was named to honour the French entomologist Jean Baptiste Godart Jean-Baptiste Godart (25 November 1775 – 27 July 1825) was a French entomologist. Born at Origny, Godart became impassioned by butterflies in his youth. He was charged by Pierre André Latreille (1762-1833) with writing the article on thes .... References * Le Moult (E.) & Réal (P.), 1962-1963. ''Les Morpho d'Amérique du Sud et Centrale'', Editions du cabinet entomologique E. Le Moult, Paris. *Paul Smart, 1976 ''The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color''. London, Salamander: ''Encyclopedie des papillons''. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition) page 235 fig. 6 (Bolivia) External links"''Morpho'' Fabricius, 1807"at Markku Savela's ''Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms'' with taxonomy and subspeciesImages of type and other specimens of ''Morpho mene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Amathonte
''Morpho amathonte'' is a Neotropical butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of the family Nymphalidae. It is considered, by some authors, to be a subspecies of ''Morpho menelaus''. The genus ''Morpho'' is palatable but some species (such as ''M. amathonte'') are very strong fliers; birds – even species which are specialized for catching butterflies on the wing – find it very hard to catch them.Young A.M. 1971. Wing colouration and reflectance in ''Morpho'' butterflies as related to reproductive behaviour and escape from avian predators. ''Oecologia'' 7, 209–222. The conspicuous blue coloration shared by most ''Morpho'' species may be a case of Müllerian mimicry, or may be 'pursuit aposematism'.Edmunds M. 1974. ''Defence in Animals: a survey of anti-predator defences''. Harlow, Essex and NY: Longman. . On p255–256 there is a discussion of 'pursuit aposematism': :"Young suggested that the brilliant blue colours and bobbing flight of ''Morpho'' butterflies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (; 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné Blunt (2004), p. 171. (), was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, taxonomist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin; his name is rendered in Latin as and, after his 1761 ennoblement, as . Linnaeus was born in Råshult, the countryside of Småland, in southern Sweden. He received most of his higher education at Uppsala University and began giving lectures in botany there in 1730. He lived abroad between 1735 and 1738, where he studied and also published the first edition of his ' in the Netherlands. He then returned to Sweden where he became professor of medicine and botany at Uppsala. In the 1740s, he was sent on several journeys through Sweden to find and classify plants and animals. In the 1750s and 1760s, he continued to collect an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pliocene
The Pliocene ( ; also Pleiocene) is the epoch in the geologic time scale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58See the 2014 version of the ICS geologic time scale million years ago. It is the second and most recent epoch of the Neogene Period in the . The Pliocene follows the Epoch and is followed by the Epoch. Prior to the 2009 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erythroxylum
''Erythroxylum'' (''Erythroxylon'') is a genus of tropical flowering plants in the family Erythroxylaceae. Many of the approximately 200 species contain the substance cocaine,Bieri S, Brachet A, Veuthey J, Christen P. Cocaine distribution in wild Erythroxylum species. ''Journal of ethnopharmacology''. 2006; 103: 439-447. and two of the species within this genus, ''Erythroxylum coca'' and ''Erythroxylum novogranatense'', both native to South America, are the main commercial source of cocaine and of the mild stimulant coca tea. Another species, '' Erythroxylum vaccinifolium'' (also known as catuaba) is used as an aphrodisiac in Brazilian drinks and herbal medicine. ''Erythroxylum'' species are food sources for the larvae of some butterflies and moths, including several ''Morpho'' species and ''Dalcera abrasa'', which has been recorded on ''E. deciduum'', and the species of ''Agrias''. Species , Kew's Plants of the World Online listed 259 species: {{Columns-list, colwidth=22e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Morpho Caterpillar
Blue is one of the three primary colours in the RYB colour model (traditional colour theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colour model. It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The eye perceives blue when observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colours; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. The clear daytime sky and the deep sea appear blue because of an optical effect known as Rayleigh scattering. An optical effect called Tyndall effect explains blue eyes. Distant objects appear more blue because of another optical effect called aerial perspective. Blue has been an important colour in art and decoration since ancient times. The semi-precious stone lapis lazuli was used in ancient Egypt for jewellery and ornament and later, in the Renaissance, to make the pigment ultramarine, the most expensive of all pigments. In the eigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Menelaus Huebneri MHNT Male
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] |
Morpho Catenarius
''Morpho catenarius'' is a Neotropical butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae of the family Nymphalidae. It is considered, by some authors, to be a subspecies of ''Morpho epistrophus''. Description ''Morpho catenarius'' has a wingspan of about . This species lacks the usual bright blue coloration of many ''Morpho'' species. The translucent surfaces of the wings vary from a pale blue color to almost white. The edges of the wings show a series of black spots, while the hindwings are crossed by several small "eyes". Larvae feed on ''Scutia buxifolia'' (Rhamnaceae) and other plant species in the families Erythroxylaceae, Leguminosae, Sapindaceae and Euphorbiaceae. Distribution This species is found in Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ... (Minas Gerais ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Polyphemus
''Morpho polyphemus'', the white morpho or Polyphemus white morpho, is a white butterfly of Mexico and Central America, ranging as far south as Costa Rica. As suggested by its name, this is one of the relatively few Morphos that is white rather than blue. Some authorities include '' M. luna'', which is also white, as a subspecies of ''M. polyphemus''. Identification Both the upper and lower wings are bright white, with some small light brown markings. There is a row of small eyespots on the underside of the hindwings. Host plant The caterpillar has been known to eat ''Paullinia pinnata'' (family Sapindaceae) and ''Inga'' (family Fabaceae). Etymology The species epithet is derived from Polyphemus, a character in Greek mythology, from the small eyespots on the wing. Polyphemus was the one-eyed son of Poseidon and Thoosa. Description Account by Hans Fruhstorfer in ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'':Fruhstorfer, H. 1913. Family: Morphidae. In A. Seitz (editor), ''Macrol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Laertes
''Morpho laertes'' (formerly ''Morpho epistrophus''), the White morpho or Epistrophus white morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Argentina. Description In 1913, Hans Fruhstorfer wrote in ''Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde'': Taxonomy When first described in 1782 ''laertes'' was placed in the genus ''Papilio''. The specimen was from Brasília. It is a valid name in The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Currently it is placed in the subgenus ''Pessonia'' (Le Moult & Réal 1962) of genus ''Morpho'', along with the closely related species ''Morpho catenarius'' (Perry, 1811), ''Morpho luna'' (Butler), ''Morpho polyphemus'' (Dixey), and '' Morpho titei'' (Drury, 1770). It is now considered a junior synonym of ''Morpho epistrophus''. Etymology The name comes from Laërtes, a figure in Greek mythology. Epistrophus is a character in the ''Iliad''. Subspecies Subspecies in alphabetical order: *''Morpho epistrophus argentinus'' H. Fruhstorfer, 190 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morpho Deidamia
''Morpho deidamia'', the Deidamia morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly. It is found in Panama, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Suriname, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil. It is a species group, which may be, or may not be several species. Many subspecies have been described. Description The basal part of the upper surface in the males brilliant steel blue, the distal area of both wings delicate light blue. But in the female the proximal region is darkened, being broadly black, though with intensive metallic reflection. Forewing with three white median dots, the light blue restricted to a relatively narrow median area. Taxonomy The accepted subspecies are: *''M. d. neoptolemus'' Wood, 1863 (Brazil: Amazonas, Colombia, Peru) Basal part of both wings black brown, only distally with slight dark blue sheen. Female: The blue median band of both wings broader, darker but more glossy blue than in the nominate ''deidamia''. Under surface with somewhat less extended red submar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
