Minerva Butterfly..where we can find them..?
July 1st, 2009. Published under Life Savers. No Comments.
The new type of butterfly, Minerva Owl Butterfly, has been found at Sonora Desert, North Mexico. Their wing reaching 10 cm and was adorned by some spheres like a big eyes , this butterfly with brown-rust colored, got the name at the end of year 2007 when the right to named them was done by auction in internet.
After that insect has found by a scientist from university of Florida which is researching of the insect type from Mexico in Florida Museum of Natural History collection, the right to named of that new insect was conquered by someone from America and got present USD 40,800. The scientific named of butterfly, Opsiphanes blythekitzmillerae, is a tribute to Margery Minerva Blythe Kitzmiller that was born at Milvern, Ohio, in 1883.
The success of the auction, which is believed as the first occur as in North America, has motivated the university for doing another auction for giving name to the other butterflies . The result of the auction will increase the research fund and used to make a research about the type of Mexico Butterfly.
The Sonora Desert is one of the places in North America which is the most threatened of its sustainability and the most poorly understood its ecology. Minerva is the first owl butterfly which was named in last century.