List of butterflies of Papua New Guinea

This is a list of butterflies of Papua New Guinea. This list includes species recorded from mainland Papua New Guinea, but also all islands that are part of the country, such as the Trobriand Islands, the D'Entrecasteaux Islands, the Louisiade Archipelago and the Bismarck Archipelago.

Location of Papua New Guinea

Hesperiidae

Pyrginae

Coeliadinae

Trapezitinae

Hesperiinae

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Pieridae

Coliadinae

Pierinae

Riodinidae

  • Dicallaneura albosignata Joicey & Talbot, 1916
  • Dicallaneura amabilis Rothschild, 1904
  • Dicallaneura decorata (Hewitson, 1862)
  • Dicallaneura dilectissima Toxopeus, 1944
  • Dicallaneura ekeikei Bethune-Baker, 1904
  • Dicallaneura exiguus Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916
  • Dicallaneura fulvofasciata Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916
  • Dicallaneura hyacinthus Toxopeus, 1944
  • Dicallaneura kirschi Röber, 1886
  • Dicallaneura leucomelas Rothschild & Jordan, 1905
  • Dicallaneura pelidna Jordan, 1937
  • Dicallaneura princessa Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Dicallaneura pulchra (Guérin-Meneville, 1831)
  • Dicallaneura ribbei Röber, 1886
  • Dicallaneura virgo Joicey & Talbot, 1916
  • Praetaxila albiplaga (Röber, 1886)
  • Praetaxila heterisa (Jordan, 1912)
  • Praetaxila huntei (Sharpe, 1903)
  • Praetaxila poultoni Joicey & Talbot, 1922
  • Praetaxila satraps (Grose-Smith, 1894)
  • Praetaxila segecia (Hewitson, 1860)
  • Praetaxila statira (Hewitson, 1862)
  • Praetaxila tessei Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916
  • Praetaxila tyrannus (Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1897)
  • Praetaxila wallacei (Hewitson, 1862)
  • Praetaxila weiskei (Rothschild, 1901)

Lycaenidae

Curetinae

Miletinae

Theclinae

Polyommatinae

Nymphalidae

Libytheinae

Danainae

Morphinae

Satyrinae

  • Altiapa colorata (Nishizawa & Sibatani, 1984)
  • Altiapa decolor (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)
  • Altiapa klossi (Rothschild, 1916)
  • Altiapa pandora goliathina (Jordan, 1924)
  • Altiapa pandora pandora (Joicey & Talbot, 1916)
  • Argyronympha pulchra Mathew, 1886
  • Argyronympha rubianensis rubianensis Grose-Smith, 1889
  • Elymnias agondas agondas (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Elymnias agondas aruana Fruhstorfer, 1900
  • Elymnias agondas bioculatus Hewitson, 1851
  • Elymnias agondas melanippe (Grose-Smith, 1894)
  • Elymnias agondas melantho Wallace, 1869
  • Elymnias cybele holofernes (Butler, 1882)
  • Elymnias cybele thryallis Kirsch, 1877
  • Elymnias hypermnestra (Linnaeus, 1763)
  • Elymnias papua bivitata van Eecke, 1915
  • Elymnias papua cinereomargo Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Elymnias papua kakarona Hagen, 1897
  • Elymnias papua papua Wallace, 1869
  • Elymnias papua viridescens Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Elymnias paradoxa Staudinger, 1894
  • Erycinidia maudei Joicey & Talbot, 1916
  • Erycinidia virgo (Rothschild & Jordan, 1905)
  • Harsiesis hecaerge (Hewitson, 1863)
  • Harsiesis hygea hygea (Hewitson, 1863)
  • Harsiesis hygea jobina Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Harsiesis yolanthe Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Hypocysta aroa calypso Grose-Smith, 1897
  • Hypocysta haemonia fenestrella Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Hypocysta haemonia haemonia Hewitson, 1863
  • Hypocysta haemonia pelusiota Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Hypocysta isis lepida Jordan, 1924
  • Hypocysta isis pelagia Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Hypocysta osyris waigeuensis Joicey & Talbot, 1917
  • Hypocysta serapis Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Lamprolenis nitida Godman & Salvin, 1880
  • Melanitis amabilis amabilis (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Melanitis amabilis valentina Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Melanitis constantia constantia (Cramer, 1777)
  • Melanitis constantia despoliata Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Melanitis leda bouruana Holland, 1900
  • Melanitis leda salomonis Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis aethiops Butler, 1868
  • Mycalesis asophis Hewitson, 1862
  • Mycalesis barbara fulvooculatus Joicey, Noakes & Talbot, 1916
  • Mycalesis barbara pallida Joicey & Talbot, 1916
  • Mycalesis bazochii (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
  • Mycalesis biformis Rothschild, 1916
  • Mycalesis bilineata Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis cacodaemon bizonata Grose-Smith, 1902
  • Mycalesis cacodaemon cacodaemon Kirsch, 1877
  • Mycalesis comes Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Mycalesis discobolus Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis drusillodes (Oberthür, 1894)
  • Mycalesis duponchelii duponchelii (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
  • Mycalesis duponchelii eminens Staudinger, 1893
  • Mycalesis duponchelii eudoxia Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis duponchelii kapaura Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis duponchelii maforica Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis duponchelii roonia Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis duponchelii umbonia Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis durga durga Grose-Smith & Kirby, 1894
  • Mycalesis durga jobina Fruhstorfer, 1906
  • Mycalesis elia Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Mycalesis fulvianetta fulvianetta Rothschild, 1916
  • Mycalesis fulvianetta semicastanea Joicey & Talbot, 1916
  • Mycalesis giamana Parsons, 1986
  • Mycalesis mehadeva fulviana Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Mycalesis mehadeva mehadeva (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Mycalesis mucia etha Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis mucia febronia Fruhstorfer, 1911
  • Mycalesis mucia mucia Hewitson, 1862
  • Mycalesis mulleri Tennent, 2000
  • Mycalesis perseus lalassis (Hewitson, 1864)
  • Mycalesis perseus perseus (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Mycalesis phidon phidon Hewitson, 1862
  • Mycalesis phidon phidonides Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis phidon xanthias (Grose-Smith, 1896)
  • Mycalesis shiva maura (Grose-Smith, 1894)
  • Mycalesis shiva shiva (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Mycalesis sirius sirius (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Mycalesis splendens versicolor Tennent, 2002
  • Mycalesis terminus atropates Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis terminus flagrans (Butler, 1876)
  • Mycalesis terminus matho (Grose-Smith, 1894)
  • Mycalesis terminus terminulus Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Mycalesis valeria helena D'Abrera, 1971
  • Orsotriaena medus licium Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Platypthima dispar dispar Joicey & Talbot, 1922
  • Platypthima homochroa satisbona Jordan, 1924
  • Platypthima placiva Jordan, 1924
  • Ypthima arctoa subarctua Tryon, 1890

Charaxinae

Apaturinae

Limenitidinae

  • Euthalia aeropa angustifascia Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Euthalia aeropa choirilus Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Euthalia aeropa eutychius Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Euthalia aeropa nodrica Boisduval, 1832
  • Euthalia aetion donata (Fruhstorfer, 1907)
  • Euthalia aetion philomena (Fruhstorfer, 1905)
  • Neptis brebissonii brebissonii (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Neptis brebissonii dulcinea Grose-Smith, 1898
  • Neptis brebissonii metioche Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Neptis nausica lyria Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Neptis nausica nausica de Nicéville, 1897
  • Neptis nausica nivalis Talbot, 1932
  • Neptis nausica symbiosa Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Neptis nausica syxosa Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Neptis praslini dorcas Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Neptis praslini maionia Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Neptis praslini meforensis Eliot, 1969
  • Neptis praslini messogis Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Neptis praslini praslini (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Neptis praslini ronensis Grose-Smith, 1899
  • Neptis praslini woodlarkiana (Montrouzier, 1856)
  • Neptis satina Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Pantoporia consimilis biaka Eliot, 1969
  • Pantoporia consimilis consimilis (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Pantoporia consimilis continua (Staudinger, 1888)
  • Pantoporia consimilis eurygrapha (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
  • Pantoporia consimilis mioswara (Talbot, 1932)
  • Pantoporia consimilis novahibernica Eliot, 1969
  • Pantoporia consimilis stenopa (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
  • Pantoporia consimilis vulcanica Eliot, 1969
  • Pantoporia venilia albopunctata (Joicey & Noakes, 1915)
  • Pantoporia venilia anceps Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Pantoporia venilia glyceria (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
  • Pantoporia venilia louisa Eliot, 1969
  • Pantoporia venilia novohannoverana (Pagenstecher, 1900)
  • Pantoporia venilia pseudovenilia Fruhstorfer, 1908
  • Pantoporia venilia tadema (Fruhstorfer, 1908)
  • Parthenos sylvia admiralia Rothschild, 1915
  • Parthenos sylvia couppei Ribbe, 1898
  • Parthenos sylvia guineensis Fruhstorfer, 1898
  • Parthenos sylvia thesaurus (Mathew, 1887)
  • Parthenos tigrina tigrina Snellen van Vollenhoven, 1866
  • Phaedyma ampliata (Butler, 1882)
  • Phaedyma fissizonata pisias (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
  • Phaedyma shepherdi damia Fruhstorfer, 1905
  • Phaedyma shepherdi gregalis (Joicey & Noakes, 1915)
  • Phaedyma shepherdi maculosa (Joicey & Talbot, 1922)
  • Tanaecia palguna Moore, 1857

Nymphalinae

Heliconiinae

References

Further reading

  • Rothschild, W., 1895. A Revision of the Papilios of the eastern Hemisphere, exclusive of Africa. Novitates Zoologicae II (3):167-463. pdf
  • Parsons, M., 1999. The Butterflies of Papua New Guinea. Their systematics and biology. 736 pp., Academic Press, London.
  • Mastrigt, H. van & E. Rosariyanto, 2005. Buku Panduan Lapangan Kupu-kupu. Untuk Wilayah Mamberamo Sampai Pegunungan Cyclops [Field guide to the butterflies of the Birdshead Peninsula] 146 pp., Conservation International, Jakarta.
  • Adalbert Seitz, 1927 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Band 9: Abt. 2, Die exotischen Großschmetterlinge, Die indo-australischen Tagfalter, 1927, 1197 Seiten 177 Tafeln. Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart
  • J. L. Gressitt and J. J. H. Szent-Ivany, 1968 Bibliography of New Guinea entomology Pacific Insects Monograph 18: 1-674 pdf Full list of literature to that date.
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