Species Index -
Central & South America
This
index includes 560 species - a representative selection from the 7800+
butterflies occurring in Central & South America. Habitats
within this region include the Amazon rainforest, the cloudforests
and high altitude paramo grasslands of the Andes, and the deciduous
lowland forests of Central
America. Countries covered include Guatemala, Nicaragua, Belize, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama,
Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad, Guyana, Surinam, Brazil, Ecuador,
Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Uruguay & Argentina. Several of the listed species also
range further north into Mexico and the southern USA, or onto
the Caribbean islands of Cuba, Hispaniola and Jamaica.