Morpho godarti, or Godart's morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Peru and Bolivia.
| Godart's morpho | |
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| Museum Wiesbaden | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Nymphalidae |
| Genus: | Morpho |
| Species: | M. godarti
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| Binomial name | |
| Morpho godarti (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
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Etymology edit
The butterfly was named to honour the French entomologist Jean Baptiste Godart.
References edit
- Le Moult (E.) & Réal (P.), 1962-1963. Les Morpho d'Amérique du Sud et Centrale, Editions du cabinet entomologique E. Le Moult, Paris.
- Paul Smart, 1976 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color. London, Salamander: Encyclopedie des papillons. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition) ISBN 9780948427046 ISBN 0600313816 page 235 fig. 6 (Bolivia)
External links edit
- "Morpho Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms with taxonomy and subspecies
- Butterflies of America Images of type and other specimens of Morpho menelaus godartii.
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