Epistrophus white morpho
The white morpho is a big butterfly with chalky, milky white wings that shine a little blue. Most of its morpho cousins are bright blue, so this one really stands out. On the underside of its back wings it has a neat chain of little eye spots.
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Fun facts
Its wings are white instead of the bright blue that most morpho butterflies have.
Near Rio de Janeiro in Brazil it is very common from January to March.
It was first described a long time ago, in 1782, when scientists put it in a different group of butterflies.
Most asked questions about Epistrophus white morpho
?Where does the white morpho live?
In South America, in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina.
?Is the white morpho dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly that cannot bite or sting.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Morpho epistrophus
- Named by
- Fabricius, 1796
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- White morpho
Where the facts come from
- Morpho laertes (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Notafly. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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