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Bolivian Butterflies Checklist

Mariposas de Bolivia Lista de Especies

first update d. 20 February 2010

last update d. 3 October 2024

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Have today removed galleries and photos of Bolivia from 2004 to 2008.

d. 5 March 2014

Have today removed galleries and photos of Bolivia from 2004 to 2008. Therefore missing more photos on Bolivian Butterflies Checklist. It is useful to visit the Butterflies of America if you want to see these species from Bolivia. These earlier galleries from Bolivia are out of date, and from a time when my experience with digital photography and image editing was limited. With hopes of a good butterflies season Lars Andersen

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My first butterflies photos from Bolivia!

Cramer's Eighty-eight. Diaethria clymena (Cramer, 1775).

Yolosa, Yungas, Bolivia d. 31 December 2004. Photographer; Lars Andersen

Prepona praeneste ssp. buckleyana. (Hewitson, 1876).

Caranavi, Yungas, Bolivia. d. 9 January 2012. Photographer; Peter Møllmann

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Preface

I have been in Bolivia six times now since January 2005 and photographing butterflies in Yungas, the Andes east side. Several expedition have been with Peter Møllmann, other people are Ib Kreutzer, Jan Flindt Christensen, Annelie B. Nielsen and Else M. Sveigaard on an expedition to Bolivia.

The list has been started because I had track of all my photos of butterflies from Bolivia, I did not know how many different species I've photographed? And it has irritated me a lot. Now after three months I begin to get an overview of how many species I have photographed, and it has been an exciting job to do.

Without help from Fauna Bolivia. Biodiversidad Mariposas. List of butterflies found in Bolivia. Author; Y. Gareca; Forno, E.; Pyrcz, T.; Willmott, K. & S. Reichle (1994 - 2006): Lista de EspeciesI never could make that list!

Must especially thank Steffen Reichle that they will show their latest list of Lycanidae from Bolivia.

For Kim Garwood; Neotropical Butterflies and Richard Lindstrom, I thank for their identification of Eudaminae species in Skippers, Hesperidae family.

Lars Andersen on Jatata inn hotel, Caranavi, Yungas d. 18 januar 2010. Photographer; Lars Andersen

Lars Andersen d. 30 April, 2010

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Butterflies from Bolivia

Papilionoidea

	list of Bolivian butterflies by Yuvinka Gareca 1994	list of Bolivian butterflies by Yuvinka Gareca & Lars Andersen 2005 - 2012	list of Bolivian butterflies by Gottfried Siebel 2015 - 2017	list of Neotropical butterflies 2017 -
Papilionidae;	50	50	70	141
Hedylidae;		3	3	36
Hesperiidae;	581	581	877	2365
Eudaminae			183
Pyrginae			313
Heteropterinae			040
Hesperiinae			341
Pieridae;	116	124	181	339
Lycanidae;	56	210	366	1182
Riodinidae;	179	232	491	1324
Nymphalidae;	723	738	1307	2433
total	1705	1938	3295	7820

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Day-flying Moths and Hawkmoths from Bolivia

Day-flying Moths
Hawkmoths

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The list is not finished yet, you presume after a study of Ithomiini genus which now stands a 138 species in Bolivia (Beccaloni & Gaston, 1994) they have after examination of Ithomiinispecies in an area that perhaps is approx; 2700 to 2900 species in Bolivia. Families are expected additions in Riodinidae and Lycaenidae. Work is still on list, there is the large group; Hesperidae to get up and running!

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Bolivians Butterflies from the climate zone; 2000-3000 meters altitude in fog forests at Andes mountains east slopes.

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reference, links and bibliography-list.

Fauna Bolivia. Biodiversidad Mariposas. List of butterflies found in Bolivia. Author; Y. Gareca; Forno, E.; Pyrcz, T.; Willmott, K. & S. Reichle (1994 - 2006): Lista de Especies

Preliminary checklist for Lycaenidae (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera) in Bolivia. Author; Yuvinka Gareca, Steffen Reichle & Robert Robbins (2008 - 2009): Lista de Lycaenidae

Charis
List of butterflies of the Amazon River basin and the Andes.
This is a list of butterflies of the Amazon River basin and the Andes.

The Amazon River basin may be the most speciose region for butterflies.
Nine countries have territory in the Amazon River basin or immediately adjoin this region: Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana.
The Andes extend from north to south through seven South American countries: Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina.
The fauna of the Andes is also diverse. Both regions have many endemic species.
South America as a whole constitutes the Neotropical realm.
Habitats in these two regions are very various and include Amazon rainforest, Atlantic forest, Llanos grasslands, Puna grassland and Valdivian temperate forests. Peru east of the Andes is regarded as the most important biodiversity hotspot in the world.
The two regions (Amazon and Andes) are South America proper excluding the pampas plains of Uruguay and Paraguay which have a distinct butterfly fauna.

Tropical Andean Butterfly Diversity Project

Neotropical Butterflies of Will Carter and Kim Garwood.

learn about Butterflies and Moths

Tree of Life Web Project

Markku Savela Lepidoptera and some other life forms.

Butterflies of America: Bernard D'Abrera 1984 & Lamas 2004

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A undescribed Lycaenidae species from Bolivia

d. 7 January 2014

Historic about the undescribed Lycaenidae species from Bolivia.

d. 6 and 19 february 2007; first unknown Lycaenidae species photographed in Caranavi, Bolivia by Lars Andersen.

d. 20 February 2010; first show in Bolivian Butterfly Checklist on Lycaenidae family .

d. 27 march 2011; Nicolaea bagrada? besidia? (could be new sp.) ID from Jorge Bizarro.

d. 11 october 2013; This butterfly is probably an undescribed species related to Nicolaea demilineata from Paraguay. Atronox on Neotropical Butterfly Forum.

d. 8 january 2014; Mail from Kim Garwood; Those are very nice shots of the mystery Nicolaea. There are quite few undescribed species in this genus, looking on Butterflies of America. I don't think anybody knows which one yours might be at this point. Thanks, K

d. 8 january 2014; I even think this unknown species is closest family with Calycopis centoripa as the red band on the rear wing bottom has a little different modes around discal-spot. Lars Andersen. See more about the undescribed Lycaenidae species on Naturephotos.dk

d. 10 january 2014; I sent it over to Gerardo Lamas in Peru to hear whether he knows it. Sincerely, Tom N. Kristensen.

d. 11 january 2014; Dear Tom, There are several hairstreak species which have underside wing patterns similar to those shown on Andersen''s pictures, and I''m not even sure if both images represent the same species. I''d think they belong to Nicolaea, close to Nicolaea fabulla, but I suggest you ask Bob Robbins. Best regards, Gerardo

d. 16 january 2016; After nearly nine years ago, when I photographed this unknowns Ministreak species in Caranavi, Yungas, Bolivia, where I perhaps thought it must be an undescribed species? I found it on the website "Learn about Butterflies and Moths". So finally I got the name on this butterflies. It is: Cleon Ministreak, Ministrymon cleon (Fabricius, 1775).

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Bolivian Butterflies from climatic zone; 600 to 1200 meters altitude in the Andean foothills on the border of the Amazon.