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Butterflies from Afrotropical

first update d. 5 October - 2014

last update d. 25 February - 2023

Atlas Mountains in western North Africa and Tropical Africa

Butterflies - Rhopalocera

Swallowtail - Papilionidae -

Common Swordtail	Graphium policenes (Africa)
Southern Scarce Swallowtail	Iphiclides feisthamelii (Europe)
Giant African Swallowtail	Papilio antimachus (Africa)
Swallowtail	Papilio machaon (DK†/im - N - S - FIN)
Green-banded Swallowtail	Papilio nireus (Africa)
Spanish Festoon	Zerynthia rumina (Europe)

Skippers - Hesperiidae -

Olive Haired Swift	Borbo borbonica (Africa)
African Marbled Skipper	Gomalia elma (Africa)

Whites - Pieridae

Moroccan Orange Tip	Anthocharis belia (Europe)
Pioneer White	Belenois aurota (Africa)
Calypso Caper White	Belenois calypso (Africa)
Forest Caper White	Belenois theora (Africa)
Clouded Yellow	Colias croceus (DK im - N im - S im - FIN im)
Berger's Clouded Yellow	Colias alfacariensis (Europe)
Desert Orange Tip	Colotis evagore (Africa)
Yellow Splendour	Colotis protomedia (Africa)
Creamy Small White	Dixeia orbana (Africa)
Spanish Greenish Black-tip	Euchloe (Elphinstonia) bazae (Europe)
Eastern Dappled White	Euchloe (Euchloe) ausonia (Europe)
Green-Striped White	Euchloe (Euchloe) belemia (Europe)
Western Dappled White	Euchloe (Euchloe) crameri (Europe)
Cleopatra	Gonepteryx cleopatra (Europe)
Western Bath White	Pontia daplidice (Europe)
Large White	Pieris brassicae (DK - N - S - FIN)
Small White	Pieris rapae (DK - N - S - FIN)
Spanish Sooty Orange Tip	Zegris meridionalis (Europe)

Blue - Lycaenidae

Geranium Bronze	Cacyreus marshalli (DK - S import) (Africa)
Holly Blue	Celastrina argiolus (DK - N - S - FIN)
Canary Blue	Cyclyrius webbianus (Africa)
Long-Tailed Blue	Lampides boeticus (DK - S import)
Lang's Short-Tailed Blue	Leptotes pirithous (Europe)
Common Blue	Polyommatus icarus (DK - N - S - FIN)
Panoptes Blue	Pseudophilotes panoptes (Europe)
Dark Grass Blue	Zizeeria knysna (Africa)

Spring Copper	Tomares ballus (Europe)

Metalmarks - Riodinidae

Brush-footed butterflies - Nymphalidae

High Brown Fritillary	Argynnis adippe (DK - N - S - FIN)
Moroccan High Brown Fritillary	Argynnis auresiana (Africa)
Moroccan Dark Green Fritillary	Argynnis lyauteyi (Africa)
Cardinal	Argynnis pandora (Europe)
Silver Washed Fritillary	Argynnis paphia (DK - N - S - FIN)

Queen of Spain Fritillary	Issoria lathonia (DK - N - S - FIN)

Small Tortoiseshell	Aglais urticae (DK - N - S - FIN)
African Map Butterfly	Cyrestis camillus (Africa)
Fasion Commodore Butterfly	Junonia pelarga (Africa)
Camberwell Beauty	Nymphalis antiopa (DK - N - S - FIN)
Large Tortoiseshell	Nymphalis polychloros (DK†/ im - S - FIN)
Red Admiral	Vanessa atalanta (DK im - N im - S im - FIN im)
Painted Lady	Vanessa cardui (DK im - N im - S im - FIN im)
American Painted Lady	Vanessa virginiensis (Nearctis and Europe)
Canary Red Admiral	Vanessa vulcanica (Canary and Madeira Isl)

Rock Grayling	Hipparchia alcyone (N)
Striped Grayling	Hipparchia fidia (Europe)
Large Wall Brown	Lasiommata maera (DK im - N - S - FIN)
Wall Brown	Lasiommata megera (DK - N - S)

Western Marbled White	Melanargia occitanica (Europe)

Monk	Amauris tartarea (Africa)
Plain Tiger	Danaus chrysippus (Europe-Africa-Oriental)
Monarch	Danaus plexippus (DK im - S im) (Neoarctic)

European Beak or Nettle-Tree Butterfly	Libythea celtis (Europe)

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