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SWAZILAND'S BIODIVERSITY: Swaziland's Butterflies

Information from reserve checklist compiled by Chuck Saunders, updated with additions from Chuck Saunders, 5 November 2009, plus additional photographic records. Numbers quoted are from Pennington's Butterflies. Nomenclature updated in 2012, as per the SABCA virtual museum.

Photos to illustrate the checklist provided by Christopher K. Willis, I.C. and A. Sharp, Justin Bode, Peter Webb, Steve Woodall, Ralda & Louis Heyns, G. Diedericks, J.C. McMaster, M. Holmes, Geoff Nichols, Michael Purves and Kate Braun.

An Adobe pdf version of the checklist as at April 2012 is available here (click to view/download - approx 7 MB).

	Nymphalidae Danainae	milkweed butterflies (6 species)
	Nymphalidae Satyrinae	browns (14 species)
	Nymphalidae Acraeinae	acraeas (19 species)
	Nymphalidae Nymphalinae	nymphs, commodores (34 species)
	Nymphalidae Charaxinae	charaxes (16 species)
	Libiythieidae	snout butterflies (1 species)
	Lycaenidae	blues and coppers (96 species)
	Pieridae	whites (33 species)
	Papilionidae	swallowtails (12 species)
	Hesperiidae	skippers (52 species)
	(283 species recorded or possibly found in Swaziland.)

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