Butterflies of Northern Peru

by Jeffrey S. Pippen | Jeff's Peru Home Page | Jeff's Butterflies Page | Jeff's Nature Page

On these pages are 90+ species of neotropical butterflies of Northern Peru grouped by subfamily and family. Identification references used include Bernard D'Abrera's Butterflies of the Neotropical Region series, DeVries' Butterflies of Costa Rica series, and Feltwell's Illustrated Encyclopedia of Butterflies. Big thank yous go to Andrew Neild (author of The Butterflies of Venezuela), who helped with many identifications, Zsolt Bálint (Hungarian Natural History Museum) for identifying the Lycaenids, Stéphane Attal (Perisama sp.), and Tomasz Pyrcz (satyrines, pieridae). Thanks also to Alana Edwards, Fred Nijhout and Ian Mann for their suggestions. If you know the species of any of these or if you spot any errors, please email me at jspippen@duke.edu All photos were taken with a Nikon CoolPix 4500. Enjoy!

Northern Peru Butterflies

Swallowtails, Whites, & Sulphurs | Hairstreaks, Blues, & Metalmarks | Brushfoots-1 | Brushfoots-2 | Skippers

Spread-wing Skippers (Hesperiidae, subfamily Pyrginae)

	Epargyreus sp.? Quebrada el Limón, ca. 650m 23 Sep 2003 #243
	Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes) Quebrada el Limón, ca. 650m 23 Sep 2003 #252
	Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes) Quebrada el Limón, ca. 650m 23 Sep 2003 #251
	Longtail sp. (Chioides sp.)? Tamborapa, ca. 600m 25 Sep 2003 #327
	same as above #326
	Plain Longtail (Urbanus simplicius) Along the road to El Paraiso, ca. 500m 26 Sep 2003 #365
	Perhaps a Deathmask Spurwing (Antigonus nearchis) Along the road to El Paraiso, ca. 500m 26 Sep 2003 #373
	Probably a duskywing (Erynnis sp). El Paraiso, ca. 400m 27 Sep 2003 #446
	Perhaps Mazan's Scallopwing (Staphylus mazans) Tamborapa, ca. 600m 25 Sep 2003 #316
	Perhaps Mazan's Scallopwing (Staphylus mazans) Along the road to Cajabamba from Cajamarca, ca. 2600m 5 Oct 2003 #702
	Perhaps Mazan's Scallopwing (Staphylus mazans) El Paraiso, ca. 400m 26 Sep 2003 #424
	?? Along the road to Cajabamba from Cajamarca, ca. 2600m 5 Oct 2003 #700
	Tropical Checkered-Skipper (male) (Pyrgus oileus) Afluente (downslope from Abra Patricia), ca. 1200m 30 Sep 2003 #558
	Tropical Checkered-Skipper (female) (Pyrgus oileus) El Paraiso, ca. 400m 26 Sep 2003 #384

Grass Skippers (Hesperiidae, subfamily Hesperiinae)

One of the skipperlings (Copaeodes sp.)

Hacienda el Limón ca. 1800m
4 Oct 2003
#672

	Hylephila sp. Santa Eulalia Valley ca. 3000m 19 Sep 2003 #a1v
	Hylephila sp. Different individual from above (same sp.?) (taken at a different location (from above) within the valley.) Santa Eulalia Valley ca. 3000m 19 Sep 2003 #1dv

Dalla sp., perhaps Dalla dognini

Abra Patricia, ca. 2000m
29 Sep 2003
#515

same individual as above

	Along the road to Oracuza, ca. 500m 25 Sep 2003 #347
	Along the road to El Paraiso, ca. 500m 26 Sep 2003 #359
	Perhaps a Racta sp. La Montañita, ca. 3200m 10 Oct 2003 #835

Northern Peru Butterflies

Swallowtails, Whites, & Sulphurs | Hairstreaks, Blues, & Metalmarks | Brushfoots-1 | Brushfoots-2 | Skippers

Created on ... November 2, 2003 | Update on ... August 1, 2005 | jeffpippen9@gmail.com