Rhetenor blue morpho (Morpho rhetenor) Pl. 29 of "Natural history of the insects of China".
[Donovan text of 1798 (ECCO TCP)]: Papilio Menelaus, var. Papilio Rhetenor,
[illustration caption]: Morpho Rhetenor,
[name in Westwood 1838 revised text]: MORPHO RHETENOR.
Date 1838
Source Natural history of the insects of China : the figures drawn from specimens of the insects / by E. Donovan. A New Edition with additional observations &c. by J. O. Westwood (new edition of "An epitome of the natural history of the insects of China" by E. Donovan, London 1798).
Author Edward Donovan (1768–1837)
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Morpho rhetenor, the Rhetenor blue morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Morpho
Species: Morpho rhetenor (Cramer, 1775)
