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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
Pipevine swallowtail - Battus philenor Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes - male Black Swallowtail - Papilio polyxenes - female Swallowtail - Papilio cresphontes Western Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar - Papilio rutulus Polydamus Swallowtail - Battus polydamas Unknown - Papilio Butterfly - Papilio cresphontes

Family Pieridae - Whites, Sulphurs, Yellows
Spring White - Pontia sisymbrii Checkered White - Pontia protodice - male Dainty Sulphur For Illinois In September - Nathalis iole - male Clouded Sulphur? - Colias Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole) - Nathalis iole Cloudless Sulphur - Phoebis sennae - female White Butterfly - Ascia monuste Checkered White - Pontia protodice - male

Family Lycaenidae - Blues, Coppers, Hairstreaks, Harvesters
Bartram's Scrub Hairstreak - Strymon acis Euphilotes battoides - Euphilotes bernardino - female Bronze Copper - Lycaena hyllus - male Red-banded Hairstreak - Calycopis cecrops Aquamarine Hairstreak - 6th (or so) US record - Oenomaus ortygnus Greenish Blue - Plebejus saepiolus Which Azure - Celastrina - female Leda Ministreak - Ministrymon leda

Family Riodinidae - Metalmarks
Mormon Metalmark - Apodemia mormo Red-bordered Pixie - Melanis pixe Fatal Metalmark - Calephelis nemesis - female Mormon Metalmark (Uh, make that Behr's Metalmark) - Apodemia virgulti Northern Metalmark (Calephelis borealis) - Calephelis borealis - male Swamp Metalmark - Calephelis muticum - male What type of Metalmark? - Calephelis rawsoni - male Zela metalmark - Emesis zela - male

Family Nymphalidae - Brushfooted Butterflies
California Patch - Chlosyne californica Monarch egg just before hatching - Danaus plexippus American Lady - Vanessa virginiensis Strange Cacoon with Red Deposits - Nymphalis antiopa Crescent, Mylitta 3064 - Phyciodes mylitta Pearl Crescent - Phyciodes tharos - female Checkerspot of some sort? - Phyciodes batesii - female White Peacock - Anartia jatrophae


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