Morpho helenor Cramer, 1782 is a animal in the Nymphalidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Morpho helenor Cramer, 1782

Morpho helenor Cramer, 1782

Morpho helenor is a Neotropical blue morpho butterfly found from Mexico to Argentina, treated as a possibly polytypic species group.

Family
Genus
Morpho
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Morpho helenor Cramer, 1782

Morpho helenor, commonly called the Helenor blue morpho or common blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly. It can be found across Central and South America, ranging from Mexico to Argentina. This taxon is treated as a species group, and it is uncertain whether it actually consists of multiple distinct species. Many subspecies of Morpho helenor have been described so far.

Photo: (c) David Geale, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by David Geale · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Nymphalidae Morpho

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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