BUTTERFLIES - HESPERIIDAE, LYCAENIDAE, PIERIDAE & PAPILIONIDAE

skippers, blues, whites and swallowtails

Citrus Swallowtail [Papilio demodocus]

Adult – Location : Nzérékoré, Guinea – Date of image : 18 Mar 2010

Citrus Swallowtail [Papilio demodocus]

Adult – Location : Sobhengu Lodge, Nibela peninsula, Lake St Lucia, kwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Date of image : 24 Feb 2008

Citrus Swallowtail [Papilio demodocus]

Adult – Location : Pilanesberg National Park, North West, South Africa – Date of image : 19 Mar 2006

Citrus Swallowtail [Papilio demodocus]

Adult feeding on Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) – Location : Ngwenya Lodge, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, South Africa – Date of image : 16 Jan 2006

Common Lime [Papilio demoleus]

Adult – Location : live butterfly display, Natural History Museum, London, England – Date of image : 06 Sep 2016

Asian Swallowtail [Papilio lowi]

Male – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 08 Feb 2015

Asian Swallowtail [Papilio lowi]

Female – Location : Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England – Date of image : 04 Feb 2017

Asian Swallowtail [Papilio lowi]

Male – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 22 Jan 2017

Great Mormon [Papilio memnon]

Female – Location : Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England – Date of image : 04 Feb 2017

Green-banded Swallowtail [Papilio nireus lyaeus]

worn female of sub-species lyaeus feeding on Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) – Location : Ngwenya Lodge, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, South Africa – Date of image : 14 Jan 2008

Green-banded Swallowtail [Papilio nireus lyaeus]

Male of sub-species lyaeus – Sobhengu Lodge, Nibela peninsula, Lake St Lucia, kwaZulu-Natal, South Africa - Date of image : 27 Feb 2008

Green-banded Swallowtail [Papilio nireus lyaeus]

worn female of sub-species lyaeus feeding on Pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata) – Location : Ngwenya Lodge, near Komatipoort, Mpumalanga, South Africa – Date of image : 14 Jan 2008

Emperor Swallowtail [Papilio ophidicephalus]

Female – Location : Stratford Butterfly Farm, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England – Date of image : 04 Feb 2017

Common Mormon [Papilio polytes]

Female on flower of Anthurium sp. – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 31 Jan 2016

Common Mormon [Papilio polytes]

Male – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 31 Jan 2016

Great Mormon [Papilio memnon]

Male – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 31 Jan 2016

Scarlet Swallowtail [Papilio rumanzovia]

Female on flowers of Egyptian Starcluster (Pentas lanceolata) – Location : live butterfly display, Natural History Museum, London, England – Date of image : 06 Sep 2016

Arcas Cattle-heart [Parides eurimedes]

Male – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 08 Feb 2015

Spear-winged Cattle-heart [Parides neophilus napoensis]

Adult of sub-species napoensis – Location : La Selva Eco-lodge, Yasuní Biosphere Reserve, Ecuador – Date of image : 27 Mar 2014

Emerald-patched Cattleheart [Parides sesostris]

Adult on flower of Anthurium sp. – Location : Tropical House, RHS Wisley, Surrey, England – Date of image : 31 Jan 2016

BUTTERFLIES – HESPERIIDAE, LYCAENIDAE, PIERIDAE & PAPILIONIDAE

skippers, blues, whites and swallowtails