Category: Geography: South America

Morpho cypris

Blue, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: South America, Old butterflies, Outside collections

Morpho cypris (Westwood, 1851) got its name after Cypris, or Aphrodite, the Ancient Greek goddess of beauty.
Morpho Cypris inhabits South America. It is found in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. The wingpsan of this butterfly is about 10-15 cm.
Morpho butterflies have metallic shimmering shades of blue and green on dorsal side of their wings. Such colouration is a result not of pigmentation but of iridescence. So, the colours we see vary with viewing angle, they may change from ligth cyan to deep green from pale pink to dark violet in the same place.
Thus two wings of one Morpho butterfly almost always look different.
This bead butterfly is loomed of 8 colours in 2006.
Morpho cypris

Blue, Collection: small, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: Central America, Geography: South America, Indigo

Morpho cypris (Westwood, 1851) got its name after Cypris, or Aphrodite, the Ancient Greek goddess of beauty.
Morpho Cypris inhabits South America. It is found in Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Colombia and Ecuador. The wingpsan of this butterfly is about 10-15 cm.
Morpho butterflies have metallic shimmering shades of blue and green on dorsal side of their wings. Such colouration is a result not of pigmentation but of iridescence. So, the colours we see vary with viewing angle, they may change from ligth cyan to deep green from pale pink to dark violet in the same place.
Thus two wings of one Morpho butterfly almost always look different.
This bead butterfly is woven of 24 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-morpho-cypris-small
Morpho godarti

Blue, Collection: tiny, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: South America, Indigo, Turquoise

Morpho godarti (Guérin-Méneville, 1844) is a South American tropical butterfly named in honor of French entomologist Jean Baptiste Godart y another French entomologist, Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1844. The butterfly can be seen in rain forests of Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Columbia and Equador. Its wingspan is about 14-15 cm.

The bead butterfly is woven of 16 colours.
The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/morpho-godarti-butterfly
Morpho helenor montezuma

Blue, Collection: big, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: Central America, Geography: South America, Green, Indigo, Turquoise

Morpho helenor (Cramer, 1776) is a butterfly of Central and South America.
The span of its wings is 7-8 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 15 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-morpho-montezuma
Morpho menelaus

Blue, Collection: mini, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: Central America, Geography: South America

Morpho menelaus (Linnaeus, 1758), or the Menelaus Blue Morpho is found in Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica and Venezuela.
Its wingspan is about 138 mm.

The bead butterfly is woven of 11 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-morpho-menelaus-mini
Morpho menelaus

Blue, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: South America, Indigo, Old butterflies, Outside collections

Morpho menelaus (Linnaeus, 1758), or the Menelaus Blue Morpho is found in Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica and Venezuela.Its wingspan is about 138 mm.

The bead butterfly is woven of 5 colours in 2001, my first year of weaving bead butterflies.
Morpho rhetenor

Blue, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: South America, Indigo, Outside collections

Morpho rhetenor (Cramer, 1775) inhabits Suriname, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Its wingspan is 116 mm.

Thje bead butterfly is loomed of 15 colours.
Morpho rhetenor

Blue, Collection: big, Family: Nymphalidae Genus: Morpho, Gender: male, Geography: South America, Indigo, Lilac, Pink, Violet

Morpho rhetenor (Cramer, 1775)

Morpho butterflies have metallic shimmering shades of blue and green on dorsal side of their wings. Such colouration is a result not of pigmentation but of iridescence. So, the colours we see vary with viewing angle, they may change from ligth cyan to deep green from pale pink to dark violet in the same place.
Thus two wings of one Morpho butterfly almost always look different.
Morpho Rhetenor inhabits South America. It is found in Surinam, French Guiana, Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela.

The wingpsan of this butterfly is about 14 cm.
This bead butterfly is woven of 22 colours.

The bead pattern is available at https://bead-patterns.com/beadpattern/butterfly-morpho-rhetenor
Nymphalis antiopa

Collection: small, Collection: small – loom, Family: Nymphalidae, Gender: female, Gender: male, Geography: North America, Geography: South America, Multicoloured

Nymphalis antiopa (Linnaeus, 1758), known as mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly inhabits Eurasia and North America. It is also the State Insect of Montana, adopted in 2001.
The butterfly’s wingspan is 7-9 cm.

The bead butterfly is loomed of 24 colours.
The bead pattern will be available later.
Nymphidium mantus

Blue, Brown, Family: Riodinidae, Gender: male, Geography: Central America, Geography: South America, Outside collections, White

Nymphidium mantus (Cramer, 1775), or Mantus Metalmark inhabits French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil/

Its wingspan is 28-33 mm.

The bead butterfly is woven of 13 colours.

The bead pattewrn will appear later.