List of butterflies of Samoa

This is a list of butterflies of Samoa and American Samoa.

Hesperiidae[]

Coeliadinae[]

• Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)

Hesperiinae[]

• (Plötz, 1884)

Papilionidae[]

Papilioninae[]

• Papilio godeffroyi Semper, 1866

Pieridae[]

Coliadinae[]

• Eurema hecabe sulphurata (Butler, 1875)
• Belenois java schmeltzi Hopkins, 1927

Lycaenidae[]

Theclinae[]

• Deudorix epijarbas doris Hopkins, 1927

Polyommatinae[]

• (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• (von Prittwitz, 1867)
• (Hopkins, 1927)
• Famegana alsulus lulu (Mathew, 1889)
• Zizina labradus mangoensis (Butler, 1884)
• Zizula hylax dampierensis (Rothschild, 1915)
• Euchrysops cnejus samoa (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)

Nymphalidae[]

Danainae[]

• Tirumala hamata melittula (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• Tirumala hamata tutuilae (Hopkins, 1927)
• Danaus plexippus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Euploea algea schmeltzi (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• (Poulton, 1924)

Satyrinae[]

• Melanitis leda hopkinsi Poulton & Riley, 1928

Nymphalinae[]

• (Fruhstorfer, 1902)
• Hypolimnas antilope lutescens (Butler, 1874)
• Hopkins, 1927
• Hypolimnas octocula octocula (Butler, 1869)
• Hypolimnas bolina pallescens (Butler, 1874)
• Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)

Heliconiinae[]

• Vagrans egista bowdenia (M. R. Butler, 1874)
• (Hopkins, 1927)

Acraeinae[]

• Acraea andromacha polynesiaca Rebel, 1910

References[]

• W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 Apr. 2006)