Several metamorphosing insects' scientific names reference the myth. "Myrrha" is a genus of ladybug beetles, such as the 18-spot ladybird ("Myrrha octodecimguttata") "Libythea myrrha", the club beak, is a butterfly native to India. "Polyommatus myrrha" is a rare species of butterfly named by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer found on Mount Erciyes in south-eastern Turkey. "Catocala myrrha" is a synonym for a species of moth known as married underwing. In total the United Kingdom's Natural History Museum lists seven Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) with the myrrha name.