Note: This identification guide only includes butterflies found in the Museum’s Butterfly Rainforest exhibit. It is not intended to cover all species worldwide.
Some species look completely different if viewed from the top or bottom sides of the wings and are included in more than one section. Each species’ range and wing size also is included, but this information is a rough generalization and not always completely accurate.
- Citrus Swallowtail
- Magnificent Owl
- Black-tipped Diadem
- Great Mormon
- Scarlet Mormon
- Cream-striped Owl
- Angola White Lady
- Archduke
- Atala
- Bat Wing
- Common Birdwing
- Common Green Birdwing
- Golden Birdwing
- Blomfild's Beauty
- Lysander Cattleheart
- Montezuma's Cattleheart
- Pink Cattleheart
- Pink-spotted Cattleheart
- True Cattleheart
- White-barred Charaxes
- Common Jay
- Common Mime
- Common Rose
- Starry Night Cracker
- Blue-banded Swallowtail
- Crimson Patch
- Friar
- Great Eggfly
- Antiochus Longwing
- Cydno Longwing
- Doris Longwing
- Eleuchia Longwing
- Hewitsoni Longwing
- Mexican Longwing
- Sapho Longwing
- Sara Longwing
- Mimic Eggfly
- Novice
- Obrinus Olivewing
- Pink Rose
- Postman
- Small Postman
- Red Rim
- Red-spot Diadem
- Grecian Shoemaker
- Banded Grecian Shoemaker
- Belus Swallowtail
- Crescent Swallowtail
- Eastern Black Swallowtail
- Giant Swallowtail
- Gold Rim Swallowtail
- Magnificent Swallowtail
- Mimic Kite Swallowtail
- Mocker Swallowtail
- Pale-spotted Swallowtail
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Torquatas Swallowtail
- Variable Swallowtail
- Black Swordtail
- Cream-striped Swordtail
- Large-striped Swordtail
- Giant Glasswing
- Dark Owl
- Double-banded Postman
- Cramer’s 88
- Emperor Swallowtail
- Brazilian Owl
- Atthis Longwing
- Black-veined Leafwing