Menelaus blue morpho
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| phylum | Arthropoda | The Menelaus Blue Morpho (Morpho menelaus) is an iridescent tropical butterfly of Central and South America. It has a wing span of 15 cm (5.9 in). The adult drinks juice from rotten fruit with its long proboscis, which is like a sucking tube. The adult males have brighter colours than the females.
Morpho menelaus is a very large butterfly, with a wingspan of approximately 138 mm.The forewing is concave at the outer edge. The upperside of wings are metallic blue.The underside is brown with a line of large ocelli at the base of the postdiscal area. For more information, visit the Wikipedia entry. Get back to Brush-footed butterflies |
| Class | Insecta | |
| order | Lepidoptera | |
| family | Nymphalidae | |
| genus | Morpho | |
| species | M. menelaus |
