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Morpho rhetenor Cramer, 1775

Taxonomy

class Insecta → subclass Pterygota → infraclass Neoptera → superorder Holometabola → order Lepidoptera → superfamily Papilionoidea → family Nymphalidae → subfamily Morphinae → tribe Morphini → subtribe Morphina → genus Morpho → subgenus Cypritis → species Morpho rhetenor

Species name(s)

Morpho (Cypritis) rhetenor Cramer, 1775 = Papilio rhetenor Cramer, [1775] = Megamede chalciope Hübner, 1816. [9, 85, 187]

Blue Morpho.

urn:lsid:insecta.pro:taxonomy:15201

Expansion

This species marks on the maps: 2.

Zoogeographical regions

Neotropic.

Subspecies of Morpho rhetenor

• Morpho rhetenor cacica Staudinger, 1876. [9]
• M. r. columbianus Krüger, 1925. [9]
• M. r. equatenor Le Moult & Réal, 1962. [9]
• M. r. helena Staudinger, 1890. [9]
• M. r. laothoe Tarel, 1927. [187]
• M. r. rhetenor. [9]
• M. r. subtusmurina Le Moult & Réal, 1962. [9]

Authors

Initial species uploading to the site: Peter Khramov.

Photos: Evgeny Komarov.

The species characteristics formalization: Peter Khramov.

References

• [9] Tree of Life (funet.fi), 2012
• [85] Lepidoptera species catalogue, Lepidoptera.ru, 2015
• [187] Species 2000, http://www.sp2000.org

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