Morpho godarti
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{{Speciesbox
| name = Godart's morpho
| image = Morpho menelaus godarti.jpg
| image_caption = Museum Wiesbaden
| taxon = Morpho godarti
| authority = (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
}}
Morpho godarti, or Godart's morpho, is a Neotropical butterfly found in Peru and Bolivia.
Etymology
The butterfly was named to honour the French entomologist Jean Baptiste Godart.
==References==
- Le Moult (E.) & Réal (P.), 1962-1963. Les Morpho d'Amérique du Sud et Centrale, Editions du cabinet entomologique E. Le Moult, Paris.
- Paul Smart, 1976 The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color. London, Salamander: Encyclopedie des papillons. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition) {{ISBN|9780948427046}} {{ISBN|0600313816}} page 235 fig. 6 (Bolivia)
External links
- [http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/morphinae/morpho/ "Morpho Fabricius, 1807"] at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms with taxonomy and subspecies
- [http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Morpho_menelaus_godartii_a.htm Butterflies of America] Images of type and other specimens of Morpho menelaus godartii.
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Category:Nymphalidae of South America
Category:Taxa named by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville
Category:Butterflies described in 1844
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