Reference photo
Photo: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London (photo: Geoff Martin) · Natural History Museum, London · CC BY 4.0 (cropped and resized). Not the specimen in Lucy’s drawer.
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Morpho helenor
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Your framed specimen is a different individual of the same species, chosen and mounted by Lucy.
- Nymphalidae
- Butterfly
For young explorers
Its blue wings shine because tiny scales bounce the light.
Its shimmering blue color comes from light reflecting off tiny layered wing scales, not from pigment, and adults sip juice from fallen, decaying fruit.
Catalog label
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Subfamily
- Morphinae
- Tribe
- Morphini
- Where it lives
- Central America; South America
From the catalog of Lucy Garcia Salik, PhD. A mounted specimen from a licensed supplier.
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