List of butterflies of Saudi Arabia

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Location of Saudi Arabia

This is a list of butterflies of Saudi Arabia . About 79 species are known from Saudi Arabia. [1]

Contents

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Papilionini

Pieridae

Coliadinae

Pierinae

Teracolini

Nepheroniini

Pierini

Lycaenidae

Aphnaeinae

Theclinae

Amblypodiini

Hypolycaenini

Theclini

Deudorigini

Lycaeninae

Polyommatinae

Lycaenesthini

Polyommatini

Nymphalidae

Libythea laius Trimen, 1879 [3]

Danainae

Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Satyrinae

Melanitini

Satyrini

Charaxini 

Nymphalinae

Nymphalini 

Junoniini 

Biblidinae

Biblidini

Limenitinae

Chalingini

Heliconiinae

Acraeini

Hesperiidae

Pyrginae

Celaenorrhinini

Carcharodini

Hesperiinae

Baorini

See also

References

  1. Saudi Arabia at the African Butterfly Database
  2. 1 2 3 4 Larsen, Torben B. (1984). Butterflies of Saudi Arabia and its neighbours. Riyadh [Saudi Arabia] : London: Transworld Arabian Library; Stacey International. ISBN   978-0-905743-36-3.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Tshikolovets, Vadim (2024). "Notes on butterflies of Saudi Arabia II (Rhopalocera: Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Nymphalidae)". Atalanta. 55 ((1/2)): 248–249.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Tshikolovets, Vadim (2022). "Notes on butterflies of Saudi Arabia with a description of a new subspecies (Rhopalocera, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae et Hesperiidae)". Atalanta. 53 (1/2): 205–208.
  5. 1 2 Verovnik, Rudi; Kosmač, Marko; Ishag, Alrabea A. E.; Dhafer, Hathal M. Al; Seizmair, Michael (2024-01-23). "Mount Faifa, a local hotspot of butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Ecologica Montenegrina. 71: 41–52. doi: 10.37828/em.2024.71.6 . ISSN   2336-9744.
  6. Alfakih, Ateah; Faify, Eisa Ali Al (2023-12-23), The clouded mother-of-pearl Protogoniomorpha anacardii Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) – a new record of butterfly for Saudi Arabia, doi:10.1101/2023.12.22.572884 , retrieved 2023-12-24