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The name morpho, meaning "changed" or "modified", is also an epithet . Blue morphos are severely threatened by the deforestation of tropical forests and habitat fragmentation. Humans provide a direct threat to this genus because their beauty attracts artists and collectors from all over the globe who wish to capture and display them.
The Menelaus blue morpho ( Morpho menelaus) is one of thirty species of butterfly in the subfamily Morphinae. [1] Its wingspan is approximately 12 cm (4.7"), and its dorsal forewings and hindwings are a bright, iridescent blue edged with black, while the ventral surfaces are brown. [2] Its iridescent wings are an area of interest in research ...
Synonyms. Glaucopsyche lygdamus xerces. The Xerces blue ( Glaucopsyche xerces) is a recently extinct species of butterfly in the gossamer-winged butterfly family, Lycaenidae. The species lived in coastal sand dunes of the Sunset District of the San Francisco Peninsula in California. The Xerces blue is believed to be the first American butterfly ...
Icaricia icarioides, [1] or Boisduval's blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae found in North America. This butterfly has 25 recognized subspecies. [2] This species has been classified in at least four different genera since it was named by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1852. It started out in Lycaena, was transferred to Icaricia by Nabokov ...
The common blue butterfly or European common blue [2] ( Polyommatus icarus) is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae and subfamily Polyommatinae. The butterfly is found throughout the Palearctic and has been introduced to North America. Butterflies in the Polyommatinae are collectively called blues, from the coloring of the wings.
The caterpillars are 0.7 centimetres (0.28 in) long, green with a dark red line along the back, and light and dark lines partway along the sides. The sides are hairy, and the head is pale brown. The pupa is 0.7 cm long, hairy and green, and is attached to a stem or the underside of a leaf of a food plant. [3]
Tarucus plinius plutarchus Fruhstorfer, 1922. Tarucus plinius zingis Fruhstorfer, 1922. In wet season in Hyderabad, India. Leptotes plinius, the zebra blue [1] [2] or plumbago blue, [3] is a species of blue butterfly (Lycaenidae) found in Sri Lanka, India [1] to Australia. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.
Species: C. kina. Binomial name. Chliaria kina. ( Hewitson, 1869) Synonyms. Hypolycaena kina Hewitson, 1869 (but see text) The blue tit is a species of lycaenid or blue butterfly found in parts of South Asia and Southeast Asia. It was traditionally called Chliaria kina [1] but the genus Chliaria is merged into Hypolycaena by many recent authors.