List of butterflies of Papua New Guinea

Location 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.

Hesperiidae

Pyrginae

Coeliadinae

Trapezitinae

Hesperiinae

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Pieridae

Coliadinae

Pierinae

Riodinidae

Lycaenidae

Curetinae

Miletinae

Theclinae

Polyommatinae

Nymphalidae

Libytheinae

Danainae

Morphinae

Satyrinae

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

  • Doleschallia bisaltide nasica Fruhstorfer, 1907
  • Doleschallia bisaltide nigromarginata Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Doleschallia browni browni Salvin & Godman, 1877
  • Doleschallia browni sciron (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
  • Doleschallia dascon Godman & Salvin, 1880
  • Doleschallia hexophthalmos areus Fruhstorfer, 1907
  • Doleschallia hexophthalmos donus Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Doleschallia hexophthalmos kapaurensis Fruhstorfer, 1899
  • Doleschallia hexophthalmos varus Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Doleschallia nacar comrii (Godman & Salvin, 1878)
  • Doleschallia nacar nacar (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Doleschallia nacar trachelus Fruhstorfer, 1907
  • Doleschallia noorna fulva Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Doleschallia noorna noorna Grose Smith & Kirby, 1893
  • Doleschallia rickardi Grose Smith, 1890
  • Doleschallia tongana gurelca (Grose Smith & Kirby, 1893)
  • Doleschallia tongana menexema (Fruhstorfer, 1912)
  • Euthaliopsis aetion rugei (Ribbe, 1898)
  • Euthaliopsis aetion sosisthenes Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Euthaliopsis aetion thieli (Ribbe, 1898)
  • Hypolimnas alimena afra Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Hypolimnas alimena bateia Fruhstorfer, 1915
  • Hypolimnas alimena curicta Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Hypolimnas alimena diphridas Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Hypolimnas alimena eremita Butler, 1883
  • Hypolimnas alimena eremitana Strand, 1914
  • Hypolimnas alimena inexpectata (Salvin & Godman, 1877)
  • Hypolimnas alimena kuramata (Ribbe, 1898)
  • Hypolimnas alimena obsolescens Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Hypolimnas alimena saturnia Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Hypolimnas antilope mela Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Hypolimnas antilope shortlandica (Ribbe, 1898)
  • Hypolimnas antilope wagneri Clark, 1946
  • Hypolimnas bolina nerina (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Hypolimnas deois albosignata Talbot, 1932
  • Hypolimnas deois deois (Hewitson, 1858)
  • Hypolimnas deois divina Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Hypolimnas deois paleutes (Grose Smith, 1897)
  • Hypolimnas deois palladius (Grose Smith, 1897)
  • Hypolimnas deois panopion Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Hypolimnas deois woodlarkiana Talbot, 1932
  • Hypolimnas euploeoides Rothschild, 1915
  • Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)
  • Hypolimnas pithoeka fumosus Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Hypolimnas pithoeka gretheri Clark, 1946
  • Hypolimnas pithoeka pithoeka Kirsch, 1877
  • Hypolimnas pithoeka unicolor (Salvin & Godman, 1877)
  • Junonia erigone iona Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Junonia erigone leucophora Fruhstorfer, 1903
  • Junonia hedonia admiralitatis (Rothschild, 1915)
  • Junonia hedonia zelima (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Junonia orithya neopommerana Ribbe, 1898
  • Junonia orithya novaeguineae (Hagen, 1897)
  • Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)
  • Lexias aeropa hegias Fruhstorfer, 1913
  • Mynes anemone Vane-Wright, 1976
  • Mynes aroensis Ribbe, 1900
  • Mynes eucosmetos cottonis (Grose Smith, 1894)
  • Mynes eucosmetos eucosmetos Godman & Salvin, 1879
  • Mynes geoffroyi aureodiscus Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Mynes geoffroyi geoffroyi (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
  • Mynes geoffroyi turturilla Fruhstorfer, 1909
  • Mynes katharina Ribbe, 1898
  • Mynes websteri Grose-Smith, 1894
  • Mynes woodfordi woodfordi Godman & Salvin, 1888
  • Symbrenthia hippoclus armis Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Symbrenthia hippoclus atta Fruhstorfer, 1904
  • Symbrenthia hippoclus hippoclus (Cramer, 1779)
  • Symbrenthia hylaeus Symbrenthia hylaeus hylaeus (Wallace, 1869)
  • Symbrenthia hylaeus Symbrenthia hylaeus nigroapicalis Joicey & Noakes, 1915
  • Yoma algina algina (Boisduval, 1832)
  • Yoma algina helisson Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Yoma algina kokopona (Hagen, 1897)
  • Yoma algina manusi Rothschild, 1915
  • Yoma algina odilia Fruhstorfer, 1912
  • Yoma algina pavonia (Mathew, 1887)
  • Yoma algina vestina Fruhstorfer, 1912

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.