Antirrhea philoctetes

Antirrhea philoctetes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nymphalidae
Genus:	Antirrhea
Species:	A. philoctetes
Binomial name
Antirrhea philoctetes (Linnaeus, 1758) [1]
Synonyms
Papilio philoctetesLinnaeus, 1758 Papilio mornaFabricius, 1775 Antirrhaea scopariaButler, 1870 Antirrhaea lindigiiC. & R. Felder, 1862 Papilio miltiadesFabricius, 1793 Antirrhaea philaretesC. & R. Felder, 1862 Antirrhaea philopoemenC. & R. Felder, 1862 Antirrhaea castaBates, 1865 Antirrhaea avernusHopffer, 1874 Antirrhaea philaretes apoxyomenesFruhstorfer, 1912 Antirrhaea tomasia Butler, 1875 Antirrhaea philoctetes murena Staudinger, [1886] Antirrhaea militiades f. intermedia Zikán & Wygodzinsky, 1948 Antirrhaea philoctetes theodori Fruhstorfer, 1907 Triteleuta philoctetes ulei Strand, 1912 Antirrhea philaretes avernus f. interruptus Bryk, 1953

Antirrhea philoctetes, the common brown morpho, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758. It is found in Costa Rica, Panama, Guatemala, Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas, Peru, Brazil and Bolivia.

The larvae feed on Geonoma longivaginata .

In Adalbert Seitz

Subspecies

• Antirrhea philoctetes philoctetes
• Antirrhea philoctetes avernusHopffer, 1874 (Amazon, Guianas, Peru, Bolivia)
• Antirrhea philoctetes castaBates, 1865 (Guatemala)
• Antirrhea philoctetes intermediaSalazar, Constantino & López, 1998 (Colombia, Peru)
• Antirrhea philoctetes lindigiiC. & R. Felder, 1862 (Colombia)
• Antirrhea philoctetes murenaStaudinger, [1886] (Brazil: Amazonas)
• Antirrhea philoctetes philaretesC. & R. Felder, 1862 (Colombia)
• Antirrhea philoctetes theodoriFruhstorfer, 1907 (Brazil: Amazonas)
• Antirrhea philoctetes tomasiaButler, 1875 (Costa Rica, Panama)
• Antirrhea philoctetes uleiStrand, 1912 (Venezuela)

References

1. "Antirrhea Hübner, [1822]" at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms