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Eurytides marcellus. Eurytides marcellus, the zebra swallowtail (formerly listed under genera Protographium, Iphiclides, Graphium and Papilio by some authorities), is a swallowtail butterfly native to the eastern United States and south-eastern Canada. It is the state butterfly of Tennessee. Its distinctive wing shape and long tails make it ...
Aporia crataegi. Aporia crataegi, the black-veined white, is a large butterfly of the family Pieridae . A. crataegi is widespread and common. Its range extends from northwest Africa in the west to Transcaucasia and across the Palearctic to Siberia and Japan in the east. In the south, it is found in Turkey, Cyprus, Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
The list comprises butterfly species listed in The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland by Emmet et al. [1] and Britain's Butterflies by Tomlinson and Still. [ 2 ] A study by NERC in 2004 found there has been a species decline of 71% of butterfly species between 1983 and 2003. [ 3 ]
Melanargia galathea. Melanargia galathea, the marbled white, is a medium-sized butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. [1] Despite its common name and appearance, this butterfly is one of the "browns", of the subfamily Satyrinae . This species can be found across most of Europe, southern Russia, Asia Minor and Iran.
Lycaena phlaeas. Lycaena phlaeas, the small copper, American copper, or common copper, is a butterfly of the Lycaenids or gossamer-winged butterfly family. According to Guppy and Shepard (2001), its specific name phlaeas is said to be derived either from the Greek φλέγω ( phlégo ), "to burn up", or from the Latin floreo, "to flourish".
Binomial name. Pieris rapae. ( Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms. Papilio rapae Linnaeus, 1758. Artogeia rapae (Linnaeus, 1758) Pieris rapae is a small- to medium-sized butterfly species of the whites-and-yellows family Pieridae. It is known in Europe as the small white, in North America as the cabbage white or cabbage butterfly, [ note 1] on several ...
Piedra Herrada, Mexico. The monarch butterfly or simply monarch ( Danaus plexippus) is a milkweed butterfly ( subfamily Danainae) in the family Nymphalidae. [ 6] Other common names, depending on region, include milkweed, common tiger, wanderer, and black-veined brown. [ 7] It is among the most familiar of North American butterflies and an ...
NASA released on Friday a pair of images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope showing two galaxies - one nicknamed the Penguin and the other the Egg - in the process of merging in sort of a ...