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| (Cramer 1775) | (Cramer 1775) | (Cramer 1775) | (Kollar 1850) | (Kollar 1850) |
| Nymphalidae - Brassolinae | Nymphalidae - Brassolinae | Nymphalidae - Brassolinae | Nymphalidae - Morphinae | Nymphalidae - Morphinae |
| Owl Butterfly | Owl Butterfly | Owl Butterfly | Blue Morpho | Blue Morpho |
| Caligo memnon | Caligo memnon | Caligo memnon | Morpho peleides | Morpho peleides |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 100mm to 120mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: Sunny places where trees grow, such as forest edges, jungle clearings and rides. Comment: Resident in Mexico and central South America. Owl moth is commonly used for about twenty other species of caligo butterflies. |
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Status: Tropical & Sub Tropical.. Wing Span: 125mm to 200mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: More open parts of tropical forests where the food plants grow. Sometimes in denser area's of forest, during mating. Comment: Found in America, and is well distributed from central America into South America as far as Colombia. |
| (Hewitson 1854) | (Hewitson 1854) | (Hewitson 1854) | (Erichson 1834) | (Erichson 1834) |
| Nymphalidae - Ithominae | Nymphalidae - Ithominae | Nymphalidae - Ithominae | Nymphalidae - Idea | Nymphalidae - Idea |
| Glasswing | Glasswing | Glasswing | Tree Nymph | Tree Nymph |
| Greta oto | Greta oto | Greta oto | Idea leuconoe | Idea leuconoe |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 56mm to 61mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: Swamps, parks, gardens, jungles, open wood land, hedgerows and other places where the food plants grow. Comment: Common resident from Mexico to Panama, and is present in the West Indies and the Canary Isles. |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 95mm to 108mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: Forests and Jungles. Comment: This large butterfly is also known as The Paper Kite, and Rice Paper. It is distributed through South China, South Japan, Malaya, Java, Borneo, and the Philippines. |
| (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Erichson 1834) | (Erichson 1834) |
| Nymphalidae - Heliconiinae | Nymphalidae - Heliconiinae | Nymphalidae - Heliconiinae | Nymphalidae - Idea | Nymphalidae - Idea |
| Common Postman | Common Postman | Common Postman | Tree Nymph | Tree Nymph |
| Heliconius melpomene | Heliconius melpomene | Heliconius melpomene | Idea leuconoe | Idea leuconoe |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 70mm to 75mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: They are to be found in many habitat types though mainly wooded, or shrubby areas where the food plants grow. Comment: Widespread throughout central and south America, as far south as Brazil. Poisonous to predators. |
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| (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Eschscholtz 1821) | (Eschscholtz 1821) |
| Nymphalidae - Siproeta | Nymphalidae - Siproeta | Nymphalidae - Siproeta | Papilionidae - Papilio | Papilionidae - Papilio |
| The Malachite | The Malachite | The Malachite | Scarlet Mormon | Scarlet Mormon |
| Siproeta stelenes | Siproeta stelenes | Siproeta stelenes | Papilio rumanzovia | Papilio rumanzovia |
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Status: Tropical and Sub Tropical. Wing Span: 85mm to 10mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: Variety of habitats, including parks, gardens, lowland, to mid elevation deciduous and rain forests. Comment: Found throughout central and the northern half of South America. Ranges from the tip of south Mexico and Florida, as far south as Brazil. |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 120mm to 140mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: They mainly inhabit forested area's. Comment: This species is native to the Philippines, but has been recorded in Taiwan. |
| (Linnaeus 1763) | (Linnaeus 1763) | (Linnaeus 1763) | (Linnaeus 1763) | (Linnaeus 1763) |
| Nymphalidae - Satyrinae | Nymphalidae - Satyrinae | Nymphalidae - Satyrinae | Nymphalidae - Satyrinae | Nymphalidae - Satyrinae |
| Common Palmfly | Common Palmfly | Common Palmfly | Common Palmfly | Common Palmfly |
| Elymnias hypermnestra | Elymnias hypermnestra | Elymnias hypermnestra | Elymnias hypermnestra | Elymnias hypermnestra |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 44mm to 55mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: They area's with palm tree's both inland and on the coast. Comment: Common o south Asia and Indo China, includes countries like Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, India, the Lesser Sunda Islands. |
| (Linnaeus 1758) | (Linnaeus 1758) | (Drury 1773) | ||
| Saturniidae | Saturniidae | Saturniidae | ||
| Atlas Moth | Atlas Moth | Ailanthus Silk Moth | ||
| Attacus atlas | Attacus atlas | Samia cynthia | ||
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 260mm to 290mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: Forests and Jungles. Comment: This species is widespread across south east Asia and throughout the Malay Archipelago. The Atlas is though to be the largest moth in the world. |
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Status: Tropical. Wing Span: 113mm to 125mm. Flight Period: All the year around. Habitat: Plantations, forests and jungles. Comment: Native to many parts Asia, and been introduced to other parts of the same continent, and also Europe. This species is used to produce silk material, but is not a domesticated. |
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