List of butterflies of Tuvalu
Appearance
This is a list of butterflies of Tuvalu.
Lycaenidae
[edit]Polyommatinae
[edit]- Zizina labradus mangoensis (Butler, 1884)
Nymphalidae
[edit]Danainae
[edit]- Danaus plexippus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Euploea lewinii distincta (Butler, 1874)
Nymphalinae
[edit]- Hypolimnas bolina rarik von Eschscholtz, 1821
- Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- "Zootaxa; published issues in 2006". W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 Apr. 2006)]
- William Rainbow described the butterflies, spiders and insects collected at Funafuti by Charles Hedley: The insect fauna of Funafuti (Australian Museum, Sydney, 1897).Rainbow, William J. (1897). The insect fauna of Funafuti (PDF). Australian Museum Memoir 3(1): 89–104.