BUTTERFLIES - HESPERIIDAE, LYCAENIDAE, PIERIDAE & PAPILIONIDAE

skippers, blues, whites and swallowtails

Untailed Ginger White [Oboronia ornata ornata]

Adult – Location : Zogota, Nzérékoré prefecture, Guinea – Date of image : 11 May 2010

Common Ginger White [Oboronia punctatus]

Adult – Location : Zogota, Nzérékoré prefecture, Guinea – Date of image : 20 Nov 2009

Chalk Hill Blue [Polyomattus coridon]

Male – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 07 Aug 2015

Chalk Hill Blue [Polyomattus coridon]

Male – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 07 Aug 2020

Chalk Hill Blue [Polyomattus coridon]

Female – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 25 Jul 2025

Common Blue [Polyomattus icarus]

Male – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 26 May 2025

Common Blue [Polyomattus icarus]

Adult feeding on Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus) – Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 28 May 2015

Sky-blue Hairstreak [Pseudolycaena damo]

Adult – Location : Hotel Bougainvillea, Santo Tomas, Heredia province, Costa Rica – Date of image : 18 Mar 2022

Dusky Line Blue [Pseudonacaduba sichela sichela]

Adult – Location : Zogota, Nzérékoré prefecture, Guinea – Date of image : 08 Feb 2010

Forest Pied Pierrot [Tuxentius carana kontu]

Adult of sub-species kontu– Location : Zogota, Nzérékoré prefecture, Guinea – Date of image : 20 Nov 2009

Lowland Branded Blue [Uranothauma falkensteini]

Adult – Location : Zogota, Nzérékoré prefecture, Guinea – Date of image : 10 Dec 2009

Orange Tip [Anthocharis cardamines]

Male feeding on Charlock (Rhamphospermum arvense) – Location : WWT Welney, near Downham Market, Norfolk, England - Date of image : 16 May 2014

Great Southern White [Ascia monuste]

Adult feeding on Kalanchoe sp. – Location : Hotel Bougainvillea, Santo Tomas, Heredia province, Costa Rica – Date of image : 12 Mar 2020

Brown-veined White [Belenois aurota aurota]

Male – Location : Kgomo-Kgomo, North-West, South Africa – Date of image : 26 Mar 2006

Brown-veined White [Belenois aurota aurota]

Male feeding on Devil's Thorn (Tribulus terrestris) – Location : farm Umtu, near Hotazel, Northern Cape, South Africa – Date of image : 03 Dec 2007

Brown-veined White [Belenois aurota aurota]

Male – Location : Gomondwane Loop, near Lower Sabie, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Date of image : 10 Jan 2009

African Common White [Belenois creona severina]

Male – Location : Sabie River Loop, near Skukuza, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Date of image : 16 Jan 2011

African Common White [Belenois creona severina]

Male of sub-species severina feeding on Lantana sp. – Location : Ngwenya Lodge, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, South Africa – Date of image : 14 Jan 2008

African Common White [Belenois creona severina]

Female of sub-species severina feeding on Lantana sp. – Location : Ngwenya Lodge, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, South Africa – Date of image : 14 Jan 2008

African Migrant [Catopsilia florella]

Adults – Location : between Afsaal and Pretoriuskop, Kruger National Park, South Africa – Date of image : 19 Jan 2006

BUTTERFLIES – HESPERIIDAE, LYCAENIDAE, PIERIDAE & PAPILIONIDAE

skippers, blues, whites and swallowtails