Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly species names and two to subspecies. This site has been developed as an adjunct to a paper ...

The Butterfly Expert Group is also preparing a Butterfly Conservation Action Plan. Sri Lanka is home to 243 varieties of butterflies of which 20 are endemic. Of these, 66 species have been listed in a ...

Welcome to the kaleidoscopic world of the butterfly wing. How do butterflies and moths (known collectively as Lepidoptera) make use of their vibrant wing patterns? Why are some species experts in ...

Its flashy red or orange wings make the Florida leafwing butterfly easy to spot in flight, but it gets its name from the tricks of camouflage that allow the brown ... but its biggest threats most ...

Pismo State Beach this year – The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit dedicated to ...

How ironic that the butterfly's numbers were at record-low levels by the 1980s — and it's been in long-term decline ever since. Luckily for the Bay checkerspot, its population plunge was observed ...

U.S. officials moved Tuesday to protect the monarch, an iconic orange-and-black butterfly famous for its marathon migration across North America, under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish ...

The researchers unearthed four mammals, eight fish, three amphibians and 10 butterfly species. Among them is the blob-headed fish, which gets its name from its enlarged, blob-like head.