Telemachus Morpho Butterfly - framed
Morpho telemachus is a large butterfly. The upperside of the forewings is a silver grey and blue green with a very wide black-brown outer edge. This is also on the posterior wings and can even cover almost all of the hindwings and forewings. There is a black band on half of the costal edge from the base.
The underside is copper brown with a line of black white and orange ocelli black white and orange, in an arc on both the hindwings and forewings.
The species is named in the classical tradition for Telemachus, a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey.
This collection of butterflies, including this Telemachus Morpho, were part of a historic collection purchased at a UK auction in 2024 from specimens collected in the 1970s.
The item is framed in a collector’s shadow box that is 25cm x 25cm.
Morpho telemachus is a large butterfly. The upperside of the forewings is a silver grey and blue green with a very wide black-brown outer edge. This is also on the posterior wings and can even cover almost all of the hindwings and forewings. There is a black band on half of the costal edge from the base.
The underside is copper brown with a line of black white and orange ocelli black white and orange, in an arc on both the hindwings and forewings.
The species is named in the classical tradition for Telemachus, a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey.
This collection of butterflies, including this Telemachus Morpho, were part of a historic collection purchased at a UK auction in 2024 from specimens collected in the 1970s.
The item is framed in a collector’s shadow box that is 25cm x 25cm.
Morpho telemachus is a large butterfly. The upperside of the forewings is a silver grey and blue green with a very wide black-brown outer edge. This is also on the posterior wings and can even cover almost all of the hindwings and forewings. There is a black band on half of the costal edge from the base.
The underside is copper brown with a line of black white and orange ocelli black white and orange, in an arc on both the hindwings and forewings.
The species is named in the classical tradition for Telemachus, a figure in Greek mythology, the son of Odysseus and Penelope, and a central character in Homer's Odyssey.
This collection of butterflies, including this Telemachus Morpho, were part of a historic collection purchased at a UK auction in 2024 from specimens collected in the 1970s.
The item is framed in a collector’s shadow box that is 25cm x 25cm.