Butterfly Pictures

Tetrio-sphinx caterpillar

macro54 — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:11:55 +0000

Huge Tetrio-sphinx caterpillar, the Tetrio sphinx (Pseudosphinx tetrio) is a moth of the Sphingidae family. It ranges from Brazil in South America to the southern United States. This huge almost 5 inches long caterpillars where seen along the coast in Panama City.

Tetrio-sphinx

Common Buckeye

macro54 — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 22:08:02 +0000

The (Common) Buckeye (Junonia coenia) is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
This image was taken in Panama.

Common-Buckeye

Firetip Skipper

macro54 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:18:57 +0000

Firetip Skipper – Firetips or firetail skippers are the tribe Pyrrhopygini of the skipper butterflies (family Hesperiidae).

Firetip Skipper

Banded Peacock

macro54 — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 13:12:22 +0000

The Banded Peacock or Fatima (Anartia fatima)

Banded Peacock

The Banded Peacock

macro54 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:06:32 +0000

2-Banded Peacocks

The Banded Peacock or Fatima (Anartia fatima) is a species of butterfly found in the southern United States, Mexico and Central America.

Blue Morpho Butterfly

macro54 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:02:36 +0000

Blue-Morpho

The Blue Morpho refers to several species of Morpho butterfly, including:

* Morpho menelaus (Menelaus Blue Morpho)
* Morpho peleides (Peleides Blue Morpho)
* Morpho rhetenor

Eurybia-Butterfly

macro54 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:00:52 +0000

Eurybia-Butterfly

The Eurybia-Butterfly is from the Riodinidae (or metalmarks) family of butterflies.

Heliconius Butterfly

macro54 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:57:55 +0000

Heliconius Butterfly

Heliconius comprise a colorful and widespread brush-footed butterfly genus distributed throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the New World. These butterflies utilize Passion flower plants as their larval food source and rely on bright wing color patterns to signal their distastefulness to potential predators (aposematism).

Tiger-Longwing

macro54 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:55:37 +0000

Tiger-Longwing

Heliconius hecale is commonly known as the Tiger Longwing. It is a Heliconiid butterfly that occurs from Mexico to the Peruvian Amazon.

Monarch Butterfly

macro54 — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:51:08 +0000

Monarch Butterfly

From Wikipedia: The Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly (subfamily Danainae), in the family Nymphalidae. The Monarch is famous for its southward migration and northward return in summer in the Americas which spans the life of three to four generations of the butterfly.