EXOTIC BUTTERFLIES

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All the photos are taken in pure natural conditions and depict fully free butterflies and moths. The main regions are indicated where pictures were taken. With so many species in tropics, some Oriental species could happen to be misidentified, although I tried to do my best.


(Click an image to enlarge and see a detailed legend, sometimes a story why this butterfly or its very shot is interesting)

last updated in November 2006

HESPERIIDAE (239 pictures) Last updated in October 2019

PAPILIONIDAE (271 pictures) Last updated in Septemner 2019

PIERIDAE
  Pierinae (and Dismorphinae) (154 pictures) Last updated in September



  Coliadinae (75 pictures) Last updated in September2019

LYCAENIDAE
  Theclinae (231 pictures) Last updated in November 2019



  Polyommatinae (163 pictures) Last updated in October 2019



  Riodininae (41 pictures) Last updated in October 2019



  Curetinae, Miletinae, Porittinae, Lyaeninae (26 pictures) Last updated in October 2019

NYMPHALIDAE
  Lybitheinae (5 pictures) Last updated in January 2019



  Danainae (191 pictures) Last updated in December 2019



  Limenitinae (183 pictures) Last updated in October 2019



  Apaturinae (6 pictures of one species) Last updated in October 2019



  Charaxinae (51 pictures) Last updated in September 2019



  Acraeinae (17 pictures) Last updated in January 2019



  Heliconiinae (97 pictures) Last updated in September 2019



  Cyrestinae (26 pictures) Last updated in September 2019



  Biblidinae (13 pictures) Last updated in September 2019



  Nymphalinae (160 pictures) Last updated in December 2019



  Amathusinae (20 pictures) Last updated in September 2019



  Satyrinae (163 pictures) Last updated in September 2019

MOTHS (50 pictures) Last updated in Septrember 2010

CAMBODIAN BUTTERFLIES in a separate page (892 pictures) Last updated in December 2019

ETHIOPIAN BUTTERFLIES in a separate page (63 pictures) Last updated in November 2013

IRANIAN BUTTERFLIES in a separate page (86 pictures) Last updated in January 2019

PUBLICATIONS

Kosterin, O.E. 2019. Occasional photographic records of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in Cambodia. 1. The coastal Cardamom foothills (SW Cambodia), 2010-2018. // Acta Biologica Sibirica, Vol. 5, Issue 1, p. 84-105.

Kosterin, O.E. 2019. Occasional photographic records of butterflies (Lepidoptera, Papilionoidea) in Cambodia. 2. Ratanakiri and Mondulkiri Provinces of Eastern Cambodia, 2013-2018. // Acta Biologica Sibirica, Vol. 5, Issue 4, p. 21-37.

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