🦋 Family

Nymphalidae

849 species · Animals

Animalia › Arthropoda › Insecta › Lepidoptera › Nymphalidae

Morpho helenor Cramer, 1782

Morpho helenor is a Neotropical blue morpho butterfly found from Mexico to Argentina, treated as a possibly polytypic species group.

Morpho polyphemus Westwood

Morpho polyphemus Westwood is a mostly white butterfly ranging from Mexico to Panama, with very fast, irregular flight.

Morpho achilles (Linnaeus, 1758)

Morpho achilles is a neotropical butterfly with distinct color patterning across Central and South America.

Morpho hercules (Dalman, 1823)

Morpho hercules is a butterfly species with detailed distinct color and marking patterns on its upper and lower wing surfaces.

Morpho epistrophus

Morpho epistrophus is a Neotropical morpho butterfly species with pale silvery-white wing base color, found in southeastern Brazil.

Morpho deidamia (Hübner, 1816)

Morpho deidamia is a butterfly species with distinct wing color differences between males and females.

Morpho telemachus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Morpho telemachus is a large butterfly with characteristic distinct coloration patterns on its wing uppersides and undersides.

Morpho aega (Hübner)

Morpho aega is a variable neotropical morphid butterfly with distinct geographic subspecies and female color forms.

Morpho sulkowskyi Kollar, 1850

Sulkowsky's morpho is a Neotropical cloud forest butterfly found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru.

Morpho amathonte Deyrolle, 1860

Morpho amathonte is a sexually dimorphic butterfly species found across several countries in Central and South America.

Antirrhea philoctetes (Linnaeus, 1758)

Antirrhea philoctetes, the common brown morpho, is a Nymphalidae butterfly found across Central and South America.

Antirrhea philaretes Felder, 1862

Antirrhea philaretes is a Nymphalidae butterfly described in 1862 found across parts of Central and South America.

Elymnias hypermnestra Linnaeus, 1763

Elymnias hypermnestra, the common palmfly, is a sexually dimorphic mimic butterfly found in South and Southeast Asia.

Elymnias malelas (Hewitson, 1863)

Elymnias malelas, the spotted palmfly, is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in northern India and Indochina.

Elymnias agondas (Boisduval, 1832)

Elymnias agondas, the palmfly, is a nymphalid butterfly endemic to New Guinea and Cape York in the Australasian realm.

Elymnias nesaea Linnaeus, 1758

Elymnias nesaea is a butterfly species that mimics Danaus aglea, found across parts of South and Southeast Asia.

Elymnias caudata Butler, 1871

Elymnias caudata is a sexually dimorphic endemic South Indian butterfly species that mimics other butterflies.

Elymnias panthera Fabricius, 1787

The tawny palmfly (Elymnias panthera) is a nymphalid butterfly found in the Indomalayan realm, described in 1787.

Caligo telamonius

Caligo telamonius is a nymphalid brush-footed butterfly described in 1862, found across parts of North, Central, and South America.

Caligo oedipus Stichel, 1903

Caligo oedipus, the boomerang owl, is a nymphalid butterfly ranging from Central America to Colombia.

Caligo idomeneus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Idomeneus giant owl (Caligo idomeneus) is a Nymphalidae butterfly found in northern South America with Musa-feeding larvae.

Caligo illioneus (Cramer, 1776)

Caligo illioneus is a large Neotropical owl butterfly, whose caterpillars feed on banana plants and damage banana plantations.

Caligo atreus (Kollar, 1849)

Caligo atreus, the yellow-edged giant owl, is a fairly long-lived Nymphalidae butterfly ranging from Mexico to Peru.

Caligo oileus (Felder, 1861)

Caligo oileus, the Oileus giant owl, is a nymphalid butterfly found from Mexico to northern South America, whose larvae feed on Heliconia and Musa.

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