Directory of Lepidoptera Resources

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Subcategories

• Butterflies
• Heterocera
• Moths
• Rhopalocera

Resources in This Category

• Amateur Entomologist

  http://butterflies.freeservers.com/
  Butterfly and moth specimens for exchange, butterfly picture galleries, entomological expedition to French Guyana, butterfly preservation, and links. In English and French.

• Atropos

  http://www.atropos.info/
  Publication for butterfly, moth, and dragonfly enthusiasts in the British Isles. Insect migration, conservation, and field techniques are central themes.

• Bill Hark's Lepidoptera Photos

  http://www.harkphoto.com/menu.html
  Photos of butterflies and moths from Virginia and elsewhere.

• Butterflies and Moths

  http://www.butterflies-moths.com/
  Notes on the biology and ecology of butterflies and moths, with some photographs by Jeroen Voogd.

• Butterflies and Moths of North America

  http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
  A guide to the Lepidoptera of the United States and northern Mexico, including a photographic identification guide, county checklists, and distribution maps.

• Butterflies and Moths of the World

  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/butmoth/
  Searchable database of generic names and type species. From The Natural History Museum, London.

• Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the French Antilles

  http://www7.inra.fr/papillon/indexeng.htm
  Photographs of specimens and notes on biology and distribution of the macrolepidoptera of Martinique, Guadeloupe and their dependencies.

• Caterpillar Hostplants Database

  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/hostplants/
  This is a Natural History Museum project to create a searchable database of information linking caterpillars to their host plants.

• Caterpillars: Especially Australian Ones

  http://lepidoptera.butterflyhouse.com.au/
  Images and descriptions of the biology, behavior, and life histories of over 2000 Australian Lepidoptera species. Includes over 600 caterpillar photos.

• Database of Illinois Lepidoptera

  http://www.museum.state.il.us/research/entomology/leps_db.html
  Lists of county records for each species and species recorded in each county. From the Illinois State Museum.

• David Bell's Butterflies and Moths

  http://home.cogeco.ca/~lunker/
  Butterflies and moths of central Ontario, Canada. Observation techniques, mimicry, life cycles, changing distribution, photos, and links.

• European Butterflies and Moths

  http://www.lepidoptera.eu/
  Photo gallery of butterflies and moths sorted by English name, scientific name, family, or country. In Polish, English, and German.

• Furman University Lepidoptera Collection

  http://facweb.furman.edu/~snyderjohn/furmanleps/index.htm
  Gallery of images of scanned specimens.

• Galaxy of Images: Butterflies and Moths

  http://www.sil.si.edu/imagegalaxy/imageGalaxy_collResult.cfm?term=Butterflies+and+Moths
  Provides images from the printed books and manuscripts in the collections of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries.

• Lepidoptera of Southeastern Arizona

  http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zEEB/butterflies/AZLeps.html
  Detailed information from the Arizona Lepidoptera Survey on the butterflies and moths of southeastern Arizona and Sonora, Mexico. Includes many images of dead specimens and live caterpillars.

• Lepidoptera of Southern Vancouver Island

  http://facweb.furman.edu/~snyderjohn/tatum/
  Photographs and text of 191 species by Jeremy Tatum.

• Lepidoptera Resources

  http://lepidopteraresources.homestead.com/
  Lists of butterfly and moth books and stamps; links.

• Lepidoptera.Net

  http://www.lepidoptera.net/
  Photographs and information about almost all of the common species of butterflies in Georgia, USA with some photos of butterflies and moths from around the world.

• Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies

  http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/lepidoptera.html
  The characteristics of these insects, their life cycle, feeding and habitat, with illustrations.

• LepIndex - Global Lepidoptera Names Index

  http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/research/projects/lepindex/
  An online, updated version of The Natural History Museum's card index archive to the scientific names of the living and fossil butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) of the world.

• Lot Moths and Butterflies

  http://www.lotmoths.com/
  Photographs of the moths and butterflies recorded in and around Las Descargues, a 300 year old farm in the Lot region of France.

• Markku Savela's Lepidoptera

  http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/
  Taxonomic tree including common and scientific names, publication details, references, links, general range maps, and some images.

• Moths and Butterflies of Europe

  http://www.leps.it/
  A large photo gallery of European moths and butterflies, including larvae and pupae.

• Order Lepidoptera

  http://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Lepidoptera.html
  Taxonomy and species accounts of moths and butterflies from the Animal Diversity Web.

• Oz's Insect World

  http://www.nature-of-oz.com/
  Information about the butterflies of Israel and Saturnids of the World. Includes photos of specimens and some Israeli Coleoptera.

• Papiliopola

  http://papiliopola.free.fr/
  Photographs of over 80 species of butterflies and moths from around the world.

• Russian Lepidoptera

  http://rusinsects.com/lep.htm
  Information on hundreds of species of butterflies occurring in the former USSR, including type locality, synonyms, range, distribution and variation, taxonomic notes, habitat and biology, similar species, and photos of museum specimens.

• The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme

  http://www.ukbms.org/
  This scheme is monitoring changes in the abundance of British butterflies and has produced important insights into almost all aspects of butterfly ecology.

• UK-Leps

  http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/uk-leps/
  Forum for discussion of Lepidoptera of the British Isles.

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