Butterfly Families is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers the families of butterflies, swallowtails, whites, blues, brush-footed butterflies, skippers and metalmarks. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is a family of butterflies. It excludes the moth families. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
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Wikipedia: Nymphalidae
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The Nymphalidae are the largest family of butterflies, with more than 6,000 species distributed throughout most of the world.
Swallowtail butterfly (Wikipedia)
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Swallowtail butterflies are large, colorful butterflies in the family Papilionidae, and include over 550 species.
Lycaenidae (Wikipedia)
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Lycaenidae is a family of butterflies with over 6,000 species worldwide; its members are also called gossamer-winged butterflies.
Pieridae (Wikipedia)
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The Pieridae are a large family of butterflies with about 76 genera containing about 1,100 species, mostly from tropical Africa and tropical Asia with some varieties in the more northern regions of North America and Eurasia.
Skipper (butterfly) (Wikipedia)
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Skippers are a group of butterflies placed in the family Hesperiidae within the order Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies).
Riodinidae (Wikipedia)
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Riodinidae is the family of metalmark butterflies.
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