Rhetenor blue morpho butterfly
The wings of morpho butterflies are dull brown on one side and a stunning metallic blue on the other. The shade of blue changes if you change the angle you look at them from. This is called iridescence and is caused by the way light interacts with the microscopic structure of the insect’s wing scales.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 146/1971/2
- Collection Class
- Arthropods
- Collection Area Region
- South America
- Common Name
- Rhetenor blue morpho butterfly
- Simple Name
- insect: butterfly
