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Morpho
genus of insects
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Morphinae
The Morphinae are a subfamily of Nymphalidae butterflies that includes the morphos, the owl butterflies (Caligo), and related lineages. It is either considered a sister group of the Satyrinae, or disassembled and included therein.
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Brassolis
Brassolis is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae.
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Stichophthalma
Stichophthalma is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae called jungle queens. The members are confined to India, China and Southeast Asia.
Antirrhea
Antirrhea is a Neotropical genus of butterflies from the family Nymphalidae.
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Dynastor
Dynastor is a genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Members of the genus can be found from Mexico to Central and South America.
Brassolini
Brassolini is a tribe usually placed in the brush-footed butterfly subfamily Morphinae, which is often included in the Satyrinae as a tribe Morphini. If this is accepted, the Brassolini become the sister tribe of the Morphini among the Satyrinae. Formerly, they were treated as an independent family Brassolidae or subfamily Brassolinae. Many members of this tribe are called owl butterflies.
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Caerois
thumb|False Antirrhea (Caerois gerdrudtus) Caerois is a Neotropical genus of butterflies from the family Nymphalidae.
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Eryphanis
Eryphanis is a genus of owl butterflies in the family Nymphalidae.
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Brassolis sophorae
species of insect
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Opsiphanes
Opsiphanes is a genus of butterflies of the family Nymphalidae found from Mexico to South America.
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Caerois chorinaeus
species of insect
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Bia actorion
species of insect
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Dynastor darius
species of insect
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Dynastor napoleon
species of insect
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Opsiphanes cassina
species of insect
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Catoblepia
Catoblepia is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. Larvae feed on bananas and adults feed on rotting fruit.
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Selenophanes cassiope
species of insect
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Opoptera aorsa
species of butterfly
Selenophanes
Selenophanes is a genus of Neotropical butterflies.
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Morphini
Morphini is a tribe of nymphalid butterflies in the subfamily Morphinae.
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Narope
Narope is a genus of Neotropical butterflies in family Nymphalidae, and includes species that present inconspicuously marking patterns on the mottled brown, beige, or cinnamon wings.The forewings are falcate.The submedian of the forewing is strongly sinuous in the male, this formation being closely associated with the presence of a tuft in the male (as a sexual character) on the under surface beneath this vein; with the hair-tuft corresponds a shiny spot at the costal margin on the upperside of the hindwing. The precostal cell is extraordinarily large and well developed; the precostal vein is
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Bia
genus of insects
Dasyophthalma
Dasyophthalma is a genus of medium-sized brownish butterflies in the family Nymphalidae. They are endemic to the Atlantic coastal region of Brazil. They feed on palms.
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Antirrhea philoctetes
species of insect
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Dasyophthalma creusa
species of insect
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Dasyophthalma rusina
species of insect
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Opoptera
Opoptera is a genus of South American butterflies formerly considered to be part of the genus Opsiphanes. thumbnail|left|200px thumbnail|left|200px
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Antirrhea ornata
species of insect
Caligopsis
Caligopsis is a genus of owl butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
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Catoblepia xanthus
species of insect
Stichophthalma cambodia
Cambodian species of brush-footed butterflies
Amathusiini
Amathusiini is a tribe of the nymphalid butterfly subfamily Morphinae. They are large butterflies. They are sometimes treated as a distinct subfamily Amathusiinae or family Amathusiidae.
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Narope cyllastros
species of butterfly
Dasyophthalma vertebralis
species of insect
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Opoptera arsippe
species of butterfly
Caligopsis seleucida
species of butterfly
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Selenophanes josephus
species of butterfly
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Opsiphanes sallei
species of insect
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Eryphanis automedon
species of insect
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Blepolenis
Blepolenis is a Neotropical genus of butterflies in the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Morphinae.
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Antirrhea philaretes
species of insect