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.
- Blue-banded Swallowtail
- Magnificent Owl
- Black-tipped Diadem
- Cream-striped Owl
- Angola White Lady
- Atlas Moth
- Autumn Leaf
- Banded Peacock
- Blomfild's Beauty
- Blue Glassy Tiger
- Blue-spotted Charaxes
- Giant Charaxes
- Pearl Charaxes
- Charaxes, Savannah
- White-barred Charaxes
- Chocolate Pansy
- Clipper
- Common Buckeye
- Common Sailor
- Common Sergeant
- Guatemalan Cracker
- Orange Cracker
- Variable Cracker
- Dark Blue Tiger
- Dero Clearwing
- Noble Leafwing
- Pearly Leafwing
- Red-striped Leafwing
- Tiger Leafwing
- Blue Morpho
- Blue Morpho
- Mosaic
- Narrow-banded Owlet
- Owl
- Purple Mort Bleu
- Question Mark
- Red Spot Duke
- Rusty Tipped Page
- Silver-studded Leafwing
- Silver Emperor
- Spicebush Swallowtail
- Dark Owl
- Small-spotted Owl
- Brazilian Owl