Thamyris morpho
Male
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Morpho
Species:	M. thamyris
Binomial name
Morpho thamyris C. &R. Felder, 1867

Morpho thamyris, theThamyris morpho, is aNeotropical butterfly found inParaguay andBrazil (Santa Catarina,Mato Grosso,São Paulo,Rio Grande do Sul).

Manysubspecies have been described.

Thamyris was a singer in Greek mythology who was so proud of his skill that he boasted he could outsing the Muses. His story is told in theIliad.

Some authors considerMorpho thamyris to be asubspecies ofMorpho portis (Hübner, [1821])

• Eugène Le Moult &Pierre Réal, 1962-1963.Les Morpho d'Amérique du Sud et Centrale, Editions du cabinet entomologique E. Le Moult, Paris.
• Adalbert Seitz (Ed.) 1907.Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde, vol. 5. Stuttgart, Alfred Kernen.
• Paul Smart, 1976The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World in Color. London, Salamander:Encyclopedie des papillons. Lausanne, Elsevier Sequoia (French language edition)ISBN 9780948427046ISBN 0600313816 page 234 fig. 2 (Brazil) and page 235 fig. 8, underside (Brazil).

• "Morpho Fabricius, 1807" at Markku Savela'sLepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Butterflies of America Images oftype and other specimens ofMorpho portis thamyris.

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