Description
Butterflies drifting over the starlit mountains of Velaris, framed in an antique oval that feels like it was pulled straight from the City of Starlight itself. Their iridescent blues glow against the night sky, blooming among preserved florals like a quiet tribute to magic, freedom, and the place where dreams are made real. If you listen closely, it almost feels like the Sidra is humming beneath them.
Menelaus Blue Morpho or Morpho menelaus is one of 30 species of butterfly in the subfamily Morphinae. Its wingspan is about 12 cm (4.7 in), and its dorsal forewings and hindwings are a bright, iridescent blue with black edges, while the underside is brown. The blue morpho butterfly’s iridescent color is due to structural color from a nanostructure on its wing scales, not pigment. These scales are composed of multiple layers of chitin with air gaps in between, forming a repeating pattern that interferes with light to selectively reflect blue wavelengths. This unique photonic crystal-like structure diffracts light, creating the vibrant blue color by doubling up the blue light while canceling out other wavelengths.
Scientific Classification:
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Morpho
Species: M. menelaus
Lorquin’s Satyr or Ptychandra lorquini is a species of butterfly, that is a Philippine endemic. It is one of the few genera to have undergone evolutionary radiation in the Philippine archipelago, meaning means that a single ancestral species of the Ptychandra butterfly genus rapidly diversified intomultiple distinct new species, with distinct characteristics each adapted to a different ecological niche within the various islands
Scientific Classification:
Family: Nymphalidae
Genus: Ptychandra
Species: P. lorquinii
Subfamily Satyrinae
The Common Blue Butterfly or European common blue is found throughout the Palearctic and has been introduced to North America. Butterflies in the Polyommatinae are collectively called blues, from the coloring of the wings.
Scientific Classification:
Family: Lycaenidae
Class: Insecta
Genus: Polyommatus
Species: Polyommatus icarus
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