Morpho helenor
| Helenor Morpho | |
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| Plate from Seitz. Top left are Morpho helenor limpidus Butler, 1872, from Costa Rica and Morpho helenor hyacinthus Butler, 1866, from Honduras. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Tribe: | Morphini |
| Genus: | Morpho |
| Species: | M. helenor |
| Binomial name | |
| Morpho helenor (Cramer, 1776) | |
| Subspecies | |
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many, see text | |
The Helenor Morpho (Morpho helenor) is a Neotropical butterfly found in Panama, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Mexico, Surinam, French Guiana, Bolivia, Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, Paraguay, Brazil, Argentina and in Trinidad and Tobago. It is a species group which may be, or may not be several species. Many subspecies have been described.
Biology
The larvae are recorded as feeding on Genipa americana, Inga, Machaerium oblongifolium and Platymiscium (all records for ssp. achillaena (Hübner, [1823])
Morpho helenor helenor
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Morpho helenor helenor, male, dorsal - MHNT
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Morpho helenor helenor male, ventral - MHNT
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Morpho helenor helenor, female, dorsal - MHNT
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Morpho helenor helenor, female, ventral - MHNT
Subspecies
Listed alphabetically.[1]
- M. h. achillaena (Hübner, [1823])
- M. h. achillides C. & R. Felder, 1867
- M. h. anakreon Fruhstorfer, 1910
- M. h. charapensis Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- M. h. coelestis Butler, 1866
- M. h. cortone Fruhstorfer, 1913
- M. h. corydon Guenée, 1859
- M. h. guerrerensis Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- M. h. helenor (Cramer, 1776)
- M. h. insularis Fruhstorfer, 1912
- M. h. leontius C. & R. Felder, 1867
- M. h. macrophthalmus Fruhstorfer, 1913
- M. h. maculata Röber, 1903
- M. h. marajoensis Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- M. h. marinita Butler, 1872
- M. h. montezuma Guenée, 1859
- M. h. narcissus Staudinger, 1887
- M. h. octavia Bates, 1864
- M. h. papirius Hopffer, 1874
- M. h. peleides Kollar, 1850 now in Morpho peleides
- M. h. peleus Röber, 1903
- M. h. pindarus Fruhstorfer, 1910
- M. h. popilius Hopffer, 1874
- M. h. rugitaeniatus Fruhstorfer, 1907
- M. h. telamon Röber, 1903
- M. h. theodorus Fruhstorfer, 1907
- M. h. tucupita Le Moult, 1925
- M. h. ululina Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- M. h. violaceus Fruhstorfer, 1912
- M. h. zonaras Fruhstorfer, 1912
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Morpho helenor achilleana
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Morpho helenor hector
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Morpho helenor marinita
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Morpho helenor octavia
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Morpho helenor papirius
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Morpho helenor pindarus
References
- ↑ M. helenor, funet.fi
- 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 237 fig. 6 as hyacinthus (Mexico), fig. 8 as montezuma Guen, underside (Honduras), page 237 fig. 10 as achillaena f. violacea Fruhstorfer, underside (Brazil), fig. 11 as achillaena f. violacea Fruhstorfer, upperside (Brazil)
External links
- Funetfi
- Butterflies of America Images of type and other specimens.
- Taxonomy Browser Upperside and underside photographs.