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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
Zebra - Eurytides marcellus Butterfly - Papilio glaucus Butterfly - Papilio eurymedon Swallowtail butterfly? - Papilio rutulus Swallowtail on Redbud - Eurytides marcellus Two-tailed Swallowtail - Papilio multicaudata - female 000002 - Papilio glaucus - female Butterfly on butterfly bush - Papilio polyxenes

Family Pieridae - Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows
Little Yellow - Pyrisitia lisa - male - female Western White - Pontia occidentalis - female West Virginia White - Pieris virginiensis Checkered White? - Pontia protodice - female Clouded Sulphur? - Colias eurytheme - female Checkered White - Pontia protodice - female Pink-edged Sulphur- white form (2) - Colias interior - female Cloudless Sulfur - Phoebis sennae - male

Family Lycaenidae - Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters
eastern tailed blue - Cupido comyntas Melissa Blue - Lycaeides melissa - Plebejus melissa A butterfly challenge Cassius Blue???? - Leptotes cassius Satyrium favonius autolycus? - Satyrium favonius - female Butterfly - Satyrium saepium Butterfly - Celastrina Arctic Blues - Plebejus glandon

Family Riodinidae - Metalmarks
What species of moth is this? - Calephelis nemesis - male Mormon Metalmark for California in May - Apodemia virgulti Palmer's Metalmark - Apodemia palmeri What type of Metalmark? - Calephelis nemesis - female Apodemia virgulti Mormon Metalmark (Apodemia mormo) - Apodemia virgulti Rawson's Metalmark - Calephelis rawsoni Arizona Metalmark - Calephelis arizonensis

Family Nymphalidae - Brushfooted Butterflies
Gray Comma - Polygonia progne bog fritalary - Boloria bellona Am. Snout Butterfly - Libytheana carinenta Red Spotted Purple - Limenitis arthemis Ruddy Daggerwing - Marpesia petreus - female Butterfly.... - Agraulis vanillae Red Spotted Purple - Limenitis arthemis Leafwing? - Anaea andria


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