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.
- Brazilian Owl
- Dark Owl
- Cramer’s 88
- Cream-striped Owl
- Magnificent Owl
- Blue-banded Swallowtail
- Prola Beauty
- Plain Blue Crow
- Black-tipped Diadem
- Striped Blue Crow
- Blue Pansy
- Pink-spotted Cattleheart
- Blue-spotted Charaxes
- Charaxes, Savannah
- Violet-spotted Charaxes
- Black-patched Cracker
- Blue Cracker
- Red Cracker
- Starry Night Cracker
- Forest Queen
- Gold-banded Forester
- Great Eggfly
- Indian Leaf
- King Crow
- Cydno Longwing
- Eleuchia Longwing
- Sapho Longwing
- Sara Longwing
- Mexican Bluewing
- Banded Morpho
- Blue Morpho
- Blue Morpho
- Nicaraguan Emperor
- Common Olivewing
- Obrinus Olivewing
- Postman
- Procilla Beauty
- Purple Mort Bleu
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- Banded King Shoemaker
- Purple King Shoemaker
- Silver King Shoemaker
- Three-toned Prepona
- Tropical Blue Wave