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Blue Morpho

Morpho peleides

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Description:

Wing Size: 64 to 78 mm. Sexes similar.
Forewing light blue iridescent. With post-media and marginal black area with a row of white spots in the marginal area. In the costal margin two white spots, one after the discal cell and the other in the subápice.

Hindwing iridescent blue color with a black stripe covering the anal region and the marginal area, a row of reddish brown spots in the marginal area.(Inbio)

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