Here’s a list of 299 butterfly names, including both common and scientific names where appropriate:
A
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African Monarch
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American Copper
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American Lady
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Anise Swallowtail
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Anna’s Eighty-eight
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Appalachian Azure
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Appalachian Brown
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Arizona Sister
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Arctic Fritillary
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Argynnis Adippe
B
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Banded Orange
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Banded Peacock
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Banded Purplewing
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Basking Glider
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Bath White
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Bay Skipper
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Becker’s White
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Big Sky Skipper
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Black Hairstreak
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Black Swallowtail
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Black-veined White
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Blazing Star Skipper
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Blue Glassy Tiger
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Blue Jay
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Blue Pansy
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Blue Tiger
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Boisduval’s Yellow
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Bordered Patch
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Bramble Hairstreak
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Brazilian Swallowtail
C
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Cabbage White
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California Dogface
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California Sister
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Camberwell Beauty
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Canadian Tiger Swallowtail
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Carolina Satyr
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Cassius Blue
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Celastrina ladon (Spring Azure)
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Checkered White
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Chocolate Albatross
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Chocolate Pansy
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Clouded Skipper
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Clouded Sulphur
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Clodius Parnassian
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Common Blue
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Common Buckeye
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Common Brimstone
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Common Eggfly
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Common Jezebel
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Common Mormon
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Common Nawab
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Common Ringlet
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Common Sailor
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Common Snow Flat
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Common Wood Nymph
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Cramer’s Eighty-eight
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Crimson Rose
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Crooked-line Pansy
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Cydno Longwing
D
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Daggerwing
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Dark Green Fritillary
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Dainty Sulphur
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Danaid Eggfly
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Desert Marble
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Diana Fritillary
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Dingy Skipper
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Disturbed Tigerwing
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Dogface Butterfly
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Double-banded Judy
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Dryadula phaetusa (Banded Orange)
E
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Eastern Comma
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Eastern Pine Elfin
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Eastern Swallowtail
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Eastern Tailed-Blue
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
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Edith’s Checkerspot
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Edward’s Hairstreak
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Eight-spotted Skipper
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Elada Checkerspot
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Emperor Butterfly
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Esakiozephyrus icana
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European Peacock
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European Skipper
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Eyed Brown
F
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False Apollo
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False Ringlet
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Fiery Skipper
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Field Crescent
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Florida Leafwing
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Florida Purplewing
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Forest Queen
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Four-barred Swordtail
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Four-spotted Skipper
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Fragile White
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Freija Fritillary
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Frosted Elfin
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Fulvous Pied Flat
G
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Giant Swallowtail
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Giant White
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Gillett’s Checkerspot
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Goatweed Leafwing
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Golden Banded Skipper
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Golden Hairstreak
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Golden Metalmark
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Golden Satyr
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Gossamer-wing Butterfly
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Great Mormon
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Great Purple Hairstreak
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Great Spangled Fritillary
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Great Tigerwing
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Green Hairstreak
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Green-veined White
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Grey Comma
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Grey Hairstreak
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Gulf Fritillary
H
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Hackberry Emperor
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Harvester
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Hebe Tiger
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Hector’s Swallowtail
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Heliconius erato
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Helena Morpho
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Hesperis Skipper
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Hoary Comma
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Holly Azure
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Holly Blue
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Horace’s Duskywing
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Hummingbird Hawk-Moth (mimics butterflies)
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Hungarian Glider
I
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Indian Leaf Butterfly
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Indian Red Admiral
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Indian Tortoiseshell
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Indian Yellow Nawab
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Iphiclides podalirius
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Isabella’s Longwing
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Ithuriel’s Speckled Fritillary
J
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Jamaican Satyr
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Japanese Emperor
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Japanese Oakblue
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Jezebel
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Julia Butterfly
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Juniper Hairstreak
K
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Karner Blue
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Kashmir Brimstone
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Kamehameha Butterfly
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Keeled Skipper
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King Page
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Korean Hairstreak
L
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Large Blue
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Large Copper
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Large Heath
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Large Marble
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Large Tortoiseshell
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Leafwing
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Lemon Emigrant
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Leman’s Ringlet
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Lesser Fiery Copper
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Leopard Lacewing
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Lilac Silverline
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Little Glassywing
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Long-tailed Skipper
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Longwing
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Lorquin’s Admiral
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Lucerne Blue
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Lycaena phlaeas
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Lyside Sulphur
M
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Madagascar Diadem
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Malachite
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Mangrove Skipper
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Map Butterfly
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Margined White
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Marsh Fritillary
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Meadow Fritillary
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Meadow Brown
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Mexican Bluewing
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Mexican Silverspot
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Milbert’s Tortoiseshell
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Monarch
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Monarch Mimic
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Mormo Maura
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Mourning Cloak
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Mountain Azure
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Mountain Ringlet
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Mylitta Crescent
N
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Nabokov’s Blue
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Narrow-winged Skipper
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Nashville Crescent
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Navy Blue Sailor
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Neotropical Leafwing
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Nephargus Swallowtail
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Nickerbean Blue
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Nigerian Charaxes
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Northern Blue
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Northern Pearly Eye
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Notocrypta curvifascia
O
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Oak Hairstreak
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Oceanic Swallowtail
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Old World Swallowtail
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One-spotted Prepona
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Orange Awlet
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Orange-barred Sulphur
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Orange Clouded Yellow
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Orange Oakleaf
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Orange Tip
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Orbed Red Satyr
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Oregon Swallowtail
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Oriental Common Nawab
P
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Painted Lady
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Pale Clouded Yellow
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Pale Tiger
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Pale Swallowtail
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Pallas’ Sailer
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Paper Kite
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Peacock Butterfly
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Pearly Crescentspot
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Pearl-bordered Fritillary
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Phaon Crescent
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Pipevine Swallowtail
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Pioneer White
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Plain Tiger
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Plum Judy
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Polydamas Swallowtail
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Poplar Admiral
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Postman Butterfly
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Prairie Ringlet
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Purple Emperor
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Purple Hairstreak
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Purple Spotted Swallowtail
Q
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Question Mark
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Queen Butterfly
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Quaker Butterfly
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Quino Checkerspot
R
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Raccoon Butterfly
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Red Admiral
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Red Cracker
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Red Postman
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Red Rim
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Red Satyr
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Red Spotted Purple
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Regal Fritillary
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Rice Paper Butterfly
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Richmond Birdwing
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Ringlet
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Rockslide Checkerspot
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Ruddy Daggerwing
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Rusty-tipped Page
S
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Sachem
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Saddleback Leafwing
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Salt Marsh Skipper
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Saturn Butterfly
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Satyr Comma
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Scalloped Oak
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Scarlet Mormon
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Schaus’ Swallowtail
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Scotch Argus
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Short-tailed Blue
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Silvery Checkerspot
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Silver-spotted Skipper
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Skipperling
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Sleepy Orange
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Small Blue
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Small Copper
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Small Heath
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Small Tortoiseshell
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Smoky Rubyspot
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Snout Butterfly
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Southern Dogface
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Southern White Admiral
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Spicebush Swallowtail
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Spotted Fritillary
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Spring Azure
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St. Francis’ Satyr
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Striped Blue Crow
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Sulphur Butterfly
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Swallowtail
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Sweetclover Skipper
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Symmachia Menetas
T
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Tailed Jay
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Tailed Orange
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Tawny Coster
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Tawny Emperor
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Texan Crescent
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Thoas Swallowtail
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Tiger Longwing
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Tiger Swallowtail
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Tropical Buckeye
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Tropical Checkered Skipper
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Two-barred Flasher
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Two-tailed Swallowtail
U
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Ultraviolet Skipper
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Uncas Skipper
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Upperwing Flash
V
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Vanessa Butterfly
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Variable Checkerspot
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Viceroy
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Violet Copper
W
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Western Tiger Swallowtail
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White Admiral
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White Peacock
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Wood White
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