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Cypris Morpho

Kingdom:	Animalia
Division:	Rhopalocera
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Subfamily:	Morphinae
Tribe:	Morphini
Genus:	Morpho
Species:	M. A butterfly is an Insect of the order Lepidoptera. Like all Lepidoptera butterflies are notable for their unusual life cycle with a Arthropods are Animals belonging to the Phylum Arthropoda (from Greek ἄρθρον arthron, " Joint " Insects ( Class Insecta) are a major group of Arthropods and the most diverse group of Animals on the Earth with over a million described Lepidoptera is an order of Insect that includes Moths and butterflies. The Nymphalidae is a family of about 5000 Species of butterflies which are distributed throughout most of the world Morphinae is a Subfamily of Nymphalidae Butterflies that includes the morphos, the Owl butterflies ( Caligo) and related A Morpho butterfly may be one of over 80 species of the Genus Morpho. cypris

Binomial name

Morpho cypris
(Westwood ,1851)

The Cypris Morpho (Morpho cypris) is a Neotropical butterfly. John Obadiah Westwood ( 22 December 1805 &ndash 2 January 1893) was an English Entomologist and Archaeologist 1851 ( MDCCCLI) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year In Biogeography, Neotropic or Neotropical refers to one of the world's eight terrestrial Ecozones This ecozone includes South and Central America the It is found in Panama , Costa Rica , Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. Panama, officially the Republic of Panama (República de Panamá) is the southernmost country of Central America. Costa Rica, officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( Spanish: Costa Rica or República de Costa Rica,) is a Country in Nicaragua (ˌnɪkəˈrɑgwə officially the Republic of Nicaragua () is a representative democratic republic and the largest nation in Central America Colombia (kəˈlʌmbɪə officially the Republic of Colombia () is a country in northwestern South America. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Ecuador topics. Several subspecies and many forms have been described. In Zoology, as in other branches of Biology, subspecies is the Taxonomic rank immediately subordinate to a Species.

Etymology

Cypris is Aphrodite, a beautiful goddess.

References

Eugène Le Moult with P. Eugène Le Moult ( 31 December 1882, Quimper - 26 January 1967, Paris) was a French Naturalist and Real Les Morpho d'Amerique du Sud et Centrale. E. Le Moult, Paris : Editions scientifiques du Cabinet entomologique E. Le Moult. 1962-1963.

External links

Funetfi
Fiebig Photographs, including microphotagraphy of the scales.

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