Butterflies by Species select Adonis Blue Apollo Bath White Berger's Clouded Yellow Black Hairstreak Black-veined White Brimstone Brown Argus Brown Hairstreak Camberwell Beauty Chalkhill Blue Chequered Skipper Clouded Yellow Comma Common Blue Dark Green Fritillary Dingy Skipper Duke of Burgundy Essex Skipper Gatekeeper Geranium Bronze Glanville Fritillary Grayling Green Hairstreak Green-veined White Grizzled Skipper Heath Fritillary High Brown Fritillary Holly Blue Large Blue Large Chequered Skipper Large Copper British Race Large Heath Large Skipper Large Tortoiseshell Large Wall Large White Long-tailed Blue Lulworth Skipper Mallow Skipper Map Marbled White Marsh Fritillary Mazarine Blue Meadow Brown Monarch Mountain Dappled White Mountain Ringlet Niobe Fritillary Northern Brown Argus Oberthur's Grizzled Skipper Orange-tip Painted Lady Pale Clouded Yellow Peacock Pearl-bordered Fritillary Purple Emperor Purple Hairstreak Queen of Spain Fritillary Real's Wood White Red Admiral Ringlet Scarce Copper Scarce Swallowtail Scotch Argus Short-tailed Blue Silver-spotted Skipper Silver-studded Blue Silver-washed Fritillary Small Blue Small Copper Small Heath Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Small Skipper Small Tortoiseshell Small White Sooty Copper Speckled Wood Swallowtail British Race Swallowtail European Race The Hermit Turquoise blue Wall Brown Weaver's Fritillary White Admiral White-letter Hairstreak Wood White Butterflies by Family select Hesperiidae Lycaenidae Nymphalidae Papilionidae Pieridae Other Wildlife Other Wildlife Amphibians Birds Dragonflies Mammals Moths Orchids Reptiles Wild Flowers HOMEBUTTERFLIESFORUMPHOTO LIBRARYDOWNLOADSBLOGGSHOPLINKSABOUTCONTACT Hesperiidae Lycaenidae Nymphalidae Papilionidae Pieridae   You can also view an alphabetical list of species by common name.     Butterflies by Family Select Hesperiidae Lycaenidae Nymphalidae Papilionidae Pieridae   Butterfly Species by Latin (Scientific) Name Aglais urticae Small Tortoiseshell Anthocharis belia Moroccan Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines Orange-tip Anthocharis euphenoides Provence Orange-tip Apatura iris Purple Emperor Aphantopus hyperantus Ringlet Aporia crataegi Black-veined White Araschnia levana Map Argynnis adippe High Brown Fritillary Argynnis aglaja Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis niobe Niobe Fritillary Argynnis paphia Silver-washed Fritillary Aricia agestis Brown Argus Aricia artaxerxes Northern Brown Argus Aricia morronensis Spanish Argus Boloria dia Weaver's Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Brenthis daphne Marbled Fritillary Cacyreus marshalli Geranium Bronze Callophrys rubi Green Hairstreak Carcharodus alceae Mallow Skipper Carcharodus lavatherae Marbled Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon Chequered Skipper Celastrina argiolus Holly Blue Chazara briseis The Hermit Coenonympha arcania Pearly Heath Coenonympha pamphilus Small Heath Coenonympha tullia Large Heath Colias alfacariensis Berger's Clouded Yellow Colias croceus Clouded Yellow Colias hyale Pale Clouded Yellow Cupido argiades Short-tailed Blue Cupido minimus Small Blue Danaus plexippus Monarch Erebia aethiops Scotch Argus Erebia epiphron Mountain Ringlet Erynnis tages Dingy Skipper Euchloe crameri Western Dappled White Euchloe simplonia Mountain Dappled White Euchloe tagis Portugese Dappled White Euphydryas aurinia Marsh Fritillary Glaucopsyche alexis Green Underside Blue Glaucopsyche arion Large Blue Glaucopsyche melanops Black-eyed Blue Gonepteryx cleopatra Cleopatra Gonepteryx rhamni Brimstone Hamearis lucina Duke of Burgundy Hesperia comma Silver-spotted Skipper Heteropterus morpheus Large Chequered Skipper Hipparchia semele Grayling Inachis io Peacock Iphiclides podalirius Scarce Swallowtail Issoria lathonia Queen of Spain Fritillary Laeosopis roboris Spanish Purple Hairstreak Lampides boeticus Long-tailed Blue Lasiommata maera Large Wall Lasiommata megera Wall Brown Leptidea reali Real's Wood White Leptidea sinapis Wood White Leptotes pirithous Lang's Short Tailed Blue Libythea celtis Nettle-tree Butterfly Limenitis camilla White Admiral Lycaena alciphron Purple-Shot Copper Lycaena dispar Large Copper British Race Lycaena hippothoe Purple-edged Copper Lycaena phlaeas Small Copper Lycaena tityrus Sooty Copper Lycaena virgaureae Scarce Copper Maniola jurtina Meadow Brown Melanargia galathea Marbled White Melanargia ines Spanish Marbled White Melitaea athalia Heath Fritillary Melitaea cinxia Glanville Fritillary Melitaea diamina False Heath Fritillary Melitaea didyma Spotted Fritillary Melitaea phoebe Knapweed Fritillary Mellicta deione Provencal Fritillary Mellicta parthenoides Meadow Fritillary Neozephyrus quercus Purple Hairstreak Nymphalis antiopa Camberwell Beauty Nymphalis polychloros Large Tortoiseshell Ochlodes venata Large Skipper Papilio gorganus Swallowtail European Race Papilio machaon Swallowtail British Race Pararge aegeria Speckled Wood Parnassius apollo Apollo Pieris brassicae Large White Pieris napi Green-veined White Pieris rapae Small White Plebeius argus Silver-studded Blue Plebicula dorylas Turquoise blue Polygonia c-album Comma Polyommatus bellargus Adonis Blue Polyommatus coridon Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus icarus Common Blue Polyommatus semiargus Mazarine Blue Pontia daplidice Bath White Pseudophilotes panoptes Panoptes Blue Pyrgus armoricanus Oberthur's Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus carthami Safflower Skipper Pyrgus malvae Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus onopordi Rosy Grizzled Skipper Pyronia tithonus Gatekeeper Satyrium esculi False Ilex Hairstreak Satyrium ilicis Ilex Hairstreak Satyrium pruni Black Hairstreak Satyrium spini Blue Spot Hairstreak Satyrium w-album White-letter Hairstreak Spialia sertorius Red Underwing Skipper Tarucus theophrastus Common Tiger Blue Thecla betulae Brown Hairstreak Thymelicus acteon Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus lineola Essex Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris Small Skipper Vanessa atalanta Red Admiral Vanessa cardui 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