Morpho Fabricius, 1807
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Illiger (1807) Magazin für Insecktenkunde. 5.
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- genus
- Morpho
Name
- Synonyms
- Balachowskyna Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- Cypritis Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- Cytheritis Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- Deyrollia Cassilde & Blandin, 2010
- Grasseia Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- Iphimedeia Fruhstorfer, 1912
- Iphixibia Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- Laurschwartzia Blandin, 2007
- Leonte Hübner, 1819
- Megamede Hübner, 1819
- Moepho Billberg, 1820
- Pessonia Le Moult & Réal, 1962
- Schwartzia Blandin, 1988
- Homonyms
- Morpho Fabricius, 1807
- Morpho Hübner, 1819
- Common names
- Borboletas-azuis in Portuguese
- Mariposas morfo in Spanish
- Morfo in Czech
- Morpho Butterflies in English
- Morphofalter in German
- Morphos in English
- modrzak in Polish
- Морфо in Russian
- تتلی in Urdu
- モルフォチョウ属 in Japanese
- 閃蝶屬 in Chinese
Bibliographic References
- CoL 2006
- International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 137 On the Relative precedence to be Accorded to certain generic names published in 1807 by Fabricius and H?bner respectively for Identical genera in the Lepidoptera Rhopalocera.Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 2, 21-28 (1942)
- Mag. f. Insektenk. (Illiger), 6
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current).
- Pelham, Jonathan P., 2008: A catalogue of the butterflies of the United States and Canada with a complete bibliography of the descriptive and systematic literature. Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera, vol. 40. xiv + 658.
- SN2000/Munroe, 1982
- SN2000/Munroe, 1982
- as per family