Dreamy Butterfly
There are 11 subspecies of the Dream Glitter Butterfly (scientific name: Morpho deidamia). The forefoot is rather degenerate, short and clawless. There are 5 R veins in the forewings, often co-stalked. The ovoid hemisphere is spherical. The larvae have protrusions on the head, spines on the body segments, and the ventral toe hooks are in the middle sequence of 1 to 3. Pupae are weeping pupae.
Let's take a look at them
The wings of the male glitter butterfly have a brilliant metallic luster, which is related to the various shapes of scales on its wings, the scale structure of the glitter butterfly is complex, the fine structure is composed of multiple layers of three-dimensional fences, when the light hits the wings, it will produce physical phenomena such as refraction, reflection and diffraction. The underside of the wing has rows of eye-like markings. The life history includes four stages of eggs, larvae, pupae, and adult insects, the eggs are hemispherical, and the larvae generally live in clusters, mainly feeding on legumes, distributed in Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, South America and other countries.
Basic information
Chinese scientific name: Dreamy Butterfly
Latin scientific name: Morpho deidamia (Hubner, 1816)
Nickname: Dream Moonlight Butterfly
Realm: Animal kingdom
Phylum: Arthropod phylum
Yamen: Six-legged Yamen
Class: Insects
Suborders: Winged subclasses
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Hammer horn suborder
Family: Butterfly family
Subfamily: Subfamily Sprite
Genus: Genus Phenoxylum
Species: Dreamy Glitter
Subspecies: 11 subspecies
Clan: The Butterfly Clan
Named by and date: Hubner, 1816
English name: Deidamia Morpho
Appearance characteristics
There are 11 subspecies of the dreamy glitter butterfly, and the wingspan of the subspecies is 15.0 to 17.0 cm. Large ornate, this butterfly has a black background with a wide rainbow-like blue band on its wings. The forewings are black with a small chain of white spots on the edges and a very brilliant wide strip of blue area on the wings. The underside is dark brown with a marbling and has 3 very large eye stripes. The hindwings are bright blue, also with large areas of metallic luster, dark brown and marbled underside, and 4 very large eye stripes on the wings. The body is dark brown. Sex differences: Females are dark brown with yellow bony chains on the periphery, with a very broad yellow area in the middle. Females have no brilliant cyan scales, but are larger than males [1].
Dreamy Butterfly (Male Butterfly Front)
Dreamy Butterfly (Male Butterfly Underside)
The males have a shiny metallic blue luster with slender antennae, about one-third the length of their forewings. The abdomen is short , brown at the base of the wing , with stripes and rows of eye spots , but hairless on the eye , and the male has hairs on the tarsal segment of the forefoot and the ventricular open of the hindwings. The reason for the glitter of the butterfly is that the butterfly wings are densely covered with scales containing a variety of pigment particles, and the denser the fine color ridges on the scales, the stronger the flash. The scales of the butterfly are more complex in structure, and when light hits the wings, physical phenomena such as refraction, reflection and diffraction are produced, and a rainbow of brilliant colors is produced under the action of optics.
Dreamy Butterfly (wing detail)
Male butterfly (obverse)
Male butterfly (bottom)
Habitat
Tropical rainforests in the neotropical realm, such as the amazon primeval forests, are also adapted to dry deciduous and secondary forest woodlands in South America. Fly fast. Male butterflies are territorial, and the metallic luster reflected by the wings indicates their domain range to other male butterflies.
Habits of life
Daytime activity, flying agility, like other Lepidoptera insects, is also completely perverted. Life history includes four stages: egg, larvae, pupae, and adult. Their eggs are hemispherical in shape, and the larvae have distinctly colored "hairy clumps" and usually have a tail fork, similar to the larvae of the eye butterfly. The larvae generally live in groups, feeding on various climbing plants, especially legumes, and if they encounter danger, they will emit a pungent odor from the glands in the body and drive away predators. Pupae have various protrusions on the head and wings and belong to the pupae. Most of the hosts are viola, honeysuckle, willow, mulberry, elm, hemp, euphorbia, madder and other plants. Adults are not easy to visit flowers, and often feed on sap such as fallen fruit and feces.
Distribution range
Fantastic Butterfly Distribution Map
It is found in Panama and Peru, Bolivia and Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela.
Breeding methods
Butterflies are fully metamorphosed insects, i.e. they go through four stages in their lifetime: eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults.
ovum
The eggs are generally hemispherical in shape, with a waxy shell on the surface to prevent water evaporation, and there are fine holes at one end, which is the passage for sperm to enter. Adults lay their eggs on their host plant or buds, the plants that the butterflies larvae feed on, preparing the larvae for suitable growth.
larvae
The larvae are caterpillars, which eat a large number of plant leaves after hatching, and as the larva grows, it generally undergoes 4 to 6 molts, and the larvae peel to one year old each time and eat the old shell.
chrysalis
Once fully grown, the butterfly larvae stop eating and crawl around looking for a suitable place to pupate. The pupae of butterflies of the family Sisliaceae are suspended from the lower tail of the head, called the pupae; They will stretch their bodies to measure whether the space around them is enough to break the pupae and smoothly spread their wings. When a pupae is found, the butterfly spits silk there, fixing the end of the body to the silk, and the butterfly larvae pupate in a hidden place on the back of the leaf, and then gradually harden and become a pre-pupa. After about a day, the anterior pupa sheds the larval skin, revealing the butterfly pupae. The apparatus of the larvae in the pupae gradually decomposes and then recombines the body of the butterfly.
imago
After the adult butterfly matures, it burrows out along the head and chest in the pupa, and the newly feathered butterfly wings are wrinkled and the abdomen is expanded, at this time the butterfly cannot avoid predators, after the wings are spread, the butterfly can fly, the front and back wings of the butterfly are not synchronized and fanned, and the adult worm feeds on the juice of the rotten fruit.
Protection level
Not included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2010 Red List of Threatened Species.
Protected animals are not listed in the Washington Convention cites.
Not included in the EU regulation on trading with species of wild Fauna and Flora