Sunset Morpho

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Sunset Morpho

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

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

Plate from Seitz. Compare the size of M. hecuba with that of the three Morpho species at the top of the page.
Plate from Seitz. Compare the size of M. hecuba with that of the three Morpho species at the top of the page.

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