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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies (excluding skippers) (Papilionoidea)

Superfamily Papilionoidea - Butterflies (excluding skippers)

Swallowtails, Parnassians · Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows · Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters · Metalmarks · Brushfooted Butterflies
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Family Papilionidae - Swallowtails, Parnassians
Papilio cresphontes Chrysalis Maturity - Papilio cresphontes Swallowtail Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes Unknown Cat - Papilio glaucus Black Swallowtail? - Papilio polyxenes Black Swallowtail egg - Papilio polyxenes Giant Swallowtail larva - Papilio cresphontes Black Swallowtail Caterpillar - Papilio polyxenes Emerging Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes - female

Family Pieridae - Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows
Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar - Phoebis sennae Yellow Brimstone - Anteos maerula Great Southern White - Ascia monuste Pieridae chrysalis - Pieris rapae Gray Marble - Anthocharis lanceolata Green worm - Pieris rapae Caterpillar on radish - Pieris rapae Slightly less early chrysalis - Pieris rapae

Family Lycaenidae - Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters
Ceraunus Blue - Hemiargus ceraunus Harvester caterpillar with aphids - Feniseca tarquinius parasitized caterpillar Banded Hairstreak - Satyrium calanus Bartram's Scrub Hairstreak final instar larva - Strymon acis Sonoran Blue - Philotes sonorensis Cat ID Gray Hairstreak - Strymon melinus

Family Riodinidae - Metalmarks
Small pink caterpillar

Family Nymphalidae - Brushfooted Butterflies
American Snout - Libytheana carinenta American Lady - Vanessa virginiensis Silvery Checkerspot Cats?? - Chlosyne nycteis caterpillar - Marpesia petreus The forming of a chrysalis - Danaus plexippus monarch caterpillar - Danaus plexippus Baltimore Checkerspot caterpillar - Euphydryas phaeton first or second instar monarch caterpillar - Danaus plexippus


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