General
information on butterflies and moths (esp. tropical)
I include here some general links to Lepidoptera,
especially tropical butterflies and particularly Neotropical Lepidoptera
- Afrotropical
butterflies and skippers (Wilson, Mark)
- Association for Tropical Lepidoptera
- Butterflies
of the World: The Taxome Project. More than 80% complete scientific names
(G Lamas et al.)
- Butterflies and moths of Arizona and
Northern Mexico (Walsh, Bruce)
- Butterflies of Ecuador (Willmott,
Keith R & Hall, Jason PW)
- Butterflies of Venezuela (Neild,
Andrew)
- Butterfly research, mainly
Lycaenidae (Pierce, Naomi)
- www.caterpillars.org; Caterpillars of La Selva,
Costa Rica (Dyer, Lee & Gentry, Grant)
- Costa Rica caterpillar database and other
things (Janzen, Dan and Hallwachs, Winnie)
- Electronic
resources on Lepidoptera (Majka, Christopher)
- Heliconius
systematics (and other life forms! Savela, Markku)
- Lepidoptera
of the French Antilles (Zagatti, Pierre; Lalanne-Cassou, Bernard; le Duchat
d'Aubigny, Jeanne)
- Lepidopterology.com (Lepidoptera Information
-- Stanislav Abadjiev)
- MIZA museum: includes type specimen pictures
of Lepidoptera
- Natural History of
Monteverde, Costa Rica (including butterflies - especially Ithomiinae,
plants and other things; Haber, Bill)
- Type
photos of Neotropical Butterflies (Tropical Andean Butterfly Diversity Project,
Lamas photos, Nick Grishin scripting)
- Papillons du monde (Schmorak,
Raymond)
- Nymphalidae.net and Nymphalidae Systematics Group (Wahlberg, Niklas)
- Postzygotic isolation
and speciation in Lepidoptera. Evolution 56: 1168-1183. Data table
(As used by Gourbiere & Mallet 2010, currently neglected to be supplied
by Daven Presgraves). (Presgraves,
Daven)
- Wing colour in butterflies,
especially iridescence in Morpho and other species (Vukusic, Peter)
Portraits
& quotations
Mimicry,
warning colour, aposematism
Heliconius
and Ithomiinae
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Last updated: 24 Aug 2008