Butterflies: Europe

Ever since childhood I’ve been captivated by butterflies. They are probably the most widely charismatic of insects. Not only are they typically very attractive in life but, due to the way the wing colours are made, they remain attractive in death (unlike dragonflies) making pinned collections a possibility. That’s NOT for me.

We begin with our home territory of Europe but I’ve also collected a handful of species that we’ve bumped into in further flung parts of the world. Since this page was a getting somewhat too long with the entire collection, I’ve moved the non-European suspects to pages of their own in these geographic areas:

1. Africa
2. Asia
3. Australia
4. New Zealand

Papilionidae
Swallowtail	britannicus Swallowtail	Scarce Swallowtail

Spanish Swallowtail	Spanish Festoon	Clouded Apollo

Pieridae
Large White	Small White	Dark-veined White

Green-veined White	Balkan Green-veined White	Wood White

Black-veined White	Bath White	Orange Tip male

Orange Tip female	Provence Orange Tip male	Provence Orange Tip female

Clouded Yellow	Brimstone	Cleopatra

Lycaenidae
Blue-spot Hairstreak	Ilex Hairstreak	False Ilex Hairstreak False Ilex Hairstreak

Green Hairstreak	Purple Hairstreak	Small Copper

Madeiran Small Copper	Large Copper	Large Copper

Purple Shot Copper female	Purple-edged Copper	Sooty Copper

Long-tailed Blue	Long-tailed Blue	Geranium Bronze

Geranium Bronze	Lang’s Short-tailed Blue

Little Tiger Blue	Short-tailed Blue	Small Blue

Small Blue	Osiris Blue	Osiris Blue

Green-underside Blue	Panoptes Blue	Silver-studded Blue

Meleager’s Blue	Common Blue male	Common Blue female

Brown Argus	Adonis Blue	Chalk-hill Blue

Holly Blue	Escher’s Blue

Riodinidae

Duke of Burgundy

Danaedae
Monarch male	Danaus chrysippus	Purple Emperor

Purple Emperor	Lesser Purple Emperor	Comma

Comma Comma	Southern Comma	Map Butterfly

Map Butterfly	White Admiral	Southern White Admiral

Southern White Admiral	Small Tortoiseshell	Red Admiral

Macaronesian Red Admiral	Macaronesian Red Admiral	Painted Lady

Peacock	Cardinal Fritillary	Cardinal Fritillary

Silver-washed Fritillary	Silver-washed Fritillary	Queen of Spain Fritillary

Titania’s Fritillary	Knapweed Fritillary	Knapweed Fritillary

Spotted Fritillary	Spotted Fritillary	Provencal Fritillary

Heath Fritillary	Marbled Fritillary

Satyridae

Marbled White

Marbled White	Melanargia occitanica	Great Banded Grayling

Woodland Grayling	Striped Grayling	Ringlet

Piedmont Ringlet	Ringlet	Scotch Argus

Meadow Brown	Small Heath	Gatekeeper

Spanish Gatekeeper	Pearly Heath	Chestnut Heath

Dusky Heath	Speckled Wood	Speckled Wood

Wall Brown	Grizzled Skipper	Dingy Skipper

Mallow Skipper	Large Chequered Skipper	Small Skipper

Essex Skipper	Large Skipper	Red Underwing Skipper

Red Underwing Skipper	Sage Skipper	Southern Marbled Skipper