Butterflies of North America - Identification Guide

Butterflies of North America & Mexico

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Identification Guide

This page deals with the butterflies of Mexico, USA and Canada. Clicking on any image takes you to a page dedicated to that species, with full size photos and detailed information about it's biology.


Papilio glaucus	Papilio rutulus	Eurytides marcellus

Anthocharis midea	Perrhybris pamela	Hesperocharis graphites

Aphrissa statira	Colias philodice	Phoebis sennae

Pyrisitia proterpia	Eurema mexicana	Eurema arbela

Anartia jatrophae	Polygonia interrogationis	Marpesia chiron

Chlosyne hippodrome	Chlosyne ehrenbergii	Limenitis arthemis astyanax

Diaethria anna	Diaethria pandama	Hamadryas feronia

Euptoieta claudia	Agraulis vanillae	Euptoieta hegesia
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Heliconius charithonia	Dione moneta
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Danaus plexippus
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Libytheana carinenta	Libytheana c. streckeri
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Satyrium titus	Arawacus jada
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Zizula cyna
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Theagenes aegides	Pyrgus oileus

Poanes zabulon	Atalopedes campestris	Wallengrenia otho
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Hylephila phyleus

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