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
- Cream-striped Owl
- Black-tipped Diadem
- Great Mormon
- Angola White Lady
- Checkered White
- Glasswing
- Glaucous Cracker
- Variable Cracker
- Great Orange Tip
- Grey Pansy
- Great Southern White
- Pearly Leafwing
- White Morpho
- Mosaic
- Clouded Mother-of-Pearl
- Forest Mother-of-Pearl
- Mottled Emigrant
- Tree Nymph
- Wood Nymph
- Red-spot Diadem
- Mocker Swallowtail
- Zebra Swallowtail
- Cream-striped Swordtail
- White-angled Sulfur
- White Peacock
- Giant Glasswing
- Cramer’s 88
- Brazilian Owl