Morpho peleides The Peleides Blue Morpho is an iridescent tropical butterfly.  Morpho peleides is grouped in order  Lepidoptera. This butterfly is among the largest butterflies in the world, with wings spanning from five to eight inches.  Morpho peleides has blue wings in coloration  with black edge.

These colors are not a result of pigmentation but are an example of iridescence.  Like other butterflies, Morpho peleides, also have two clubbed antennas, two fore wings and two hind wings, six legs and three body segments (the head, thorax and abdomen). We can find these butterfly in the tropical forests of Latin America from Mexico to Colombia. The blue morpho’s entire life span lasts only 115 days, which means most of their time is spent eating and reproducing.

  It has black colour with large green areas on the wings. The females are larger than the males and have brown colour with some white spots. Its abdomen is yellow. Head and thorax are black. The underside of thorax has a red hair-coat. The fore wings have black colour with green colour in the edge.  A black and longish odour-spot is on the wing. Ornithoptera priamus have green hind wings. At the wing leading edge there is a big, golden spots. At the outer edge there is also a small golden spot and a chain of black spots. The edge of wing is black.