Morpho rhetenor

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Morpho rhetenor, males with missing abdomen.

Morpho rhetenor is a butterfly ( butterfly ) of the family Nymphalidae ( Nymphalidae ). The English name Blue Morpho ( German: Blue Morpho ) is misleading because he Morpho peleides can also designate.

Features

The moths reach a wingspan of up to 17 centimeters, and so belong to the larger Morphofalterarten. The wings, as with many Morphofaltern, a shimmering blue - staining. The blue of the forewing is only by delicate white spots, which run parallel to the wing edge, and interrupted the black wing tips. The hind wings are colored completely blue except for the brown, applied to the body. The underside is completely decorated in shades of brown, which are always bright center of the body out. As with M. peleides there is a running along the lower edge of the wing series of eye-spots. The females are usually larger than males.

Subspecies

By M. rethenor two subspecies are known:

• Morpho rhetenor Cacica (Staudinger, 1876)
• Morpho helena rhetenor (Staudinger, 1890)

Occurrence

Morpho rethenor occurs in the rain forests of the Neotropics. Its distribution area covers the whole of South America and Central America. The type is not under special protection.

Biology

The caterpillars live in tropical grasses, including bamboo. The moths can be like all the other blue colored Morpho, tighten gently by shimmering blue objects.