Sunset Morpho

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iSunset Morpho

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Division: Rhopalocera
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Subfamily: Morphinae
Tribe: Morphini
Genus: Morpho
Species: M. hecuba
Binomial name
Morpho hecuba
Linnaeus, 1771

The Sunset Morpho (Morpho hecuba), the largest of the Morpho genus at about 20 cm (8 inch), is an equatorial butterfly only found in the lower Amazon Rainforest and Suriname.


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