List of butterflies of Namibia

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Location of Namibia

This is a list of butterflies of Namibia. About 224 species are known from Namibia,[1] six of which are endemic.[2]

Papilionidae[]

Papilioninae[]

Papilionini[]

  • Papilio nireus lyaeus Doubleday, 1845
  • Papilio demodocus Esper, [1798]

Leptocercini[]

Pieridae[]

Coliadinae[]

  • Eurema brigitta (Stoll, [1780])
  • Eurema hecabe solifera (Butler, 1875)
  • Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Colias electo (Linnaeus, 1763)

Pierinae[]

Pierini[]

Lycaenidae[]

Miletinae[]

Miletini[]

Poritiinae[]

Liptenini[]

Aphnaeinae[]

Theclinae[]

Polyommatinae[]

Lycaenesthini[]

Polyommatini[]

Nymphalidae[]

Danainae[]

Danaini[]

Satyrinae[]

Melanitini[]

  • Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)

Satyrini[]

Charaxinae[]

Charaxini[]

Nymphalinae[]

Nymphalini[]

  • Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Junonia hierta cebrene Trimen, 1870
  • Junonia natalica (Felder & Felder, 1860)
  • Junonia oenone (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Junonia orithya madagascariensis Guenée, 1865
  • Protogoniomorpha parhassus (Drury, 1782)
  • Precis antilope (Feisthamel, 1850)
  • Precis octavia sesamus Trimen, 1883
  • Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)

Biblidinae[]

Biblidini[]

Epicaliini[]

Limenitinae[]

Limenitidini[]

Neptidini[]

Adoliadini[]

Heliconiinae[]

Acraeini[]

Vagrantini[]

  • Phalanta phalantha aethiopica (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)

Hesperiidae[]

Coeliadinae[]

Pyrginae[]

Celaenorrhinini[]

Tagiadini[]

Carcharodini[]

Hesperiinae[]

Aeromachini[]

Baorini[]

Heteropterinae[]

  • Metisella willemi (Wallengren, 1857)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Namibia at the African Butterfly Database
  2. ^ "Endemic butterflies of Namibia at Afrotropical Butterflies". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
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