Morpho aurora
| Aurora Morpho | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Morphini |
| Genus: | Morpho |
| Species: | M. aurora |
| Binomial name | |
| Morpho aurora (Westwood, 1851) | |
The Aurora Morpho (Morpho aurora) is a Neotropical butterfly found in Bolivia and Peru.
M. aurora agrees with portis Hbn. in the shape of the wings and the arrangement of the black distal spots. Upper surface with light blue, distally darkening gloss. Under surface grey-white, with mother-of-pearl gloss, basal area purple. The ocelli show through distinctly above and are yellow in the midde with white crescents and sharply ringed with black. On the forewing four or five, on the hindwing always four eyespots, the apical one sometimes doubled, being accompanied anteriorly by a halved eye-spot. The species flies rather high; Garlepp met with it at Cocapata in Bolivia at elevations of about 2600 m. [1]
Etymology
Aurora is the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology.
References
- Notes
- ↑ Fruhstorfer, H., 1913. Family: Morphidae. In A. Seitz (editor), Macrolepidoptera of the world,vol. 5: 333–356. Stuttgart: Alfred Kernen.
- Sources
- 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)ISBN 9780948427046 ISBN 0600313816 page 233 fig.7ssp. aureola Fruhst. (Peru), fig. 8 ssp. aureola Fruhst., underside (Peru).
External links
- Butterflies of America Photographs of type specimens
- Funetfi
- Photograph of voucher.
- Fiebig Photographs