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.
- Small-spotted Owl
- Prola Beauty
- Atlas Moth
- Autumn Leaf
- Banded Orange
- Band-celled Sister
- Blomfild's Beauty
- Common Leopard
- Flame-bordered Charaxes
- Foxy Charaxes
- White-barred Charaxes
- Crimson Patch
- Cruiser
- Gulf Fritillary
- Variegated Fritillary
- Great Orange Tip
- Julia
- Juliette
- Juno
- Leopard Lacewing
- Malay Lacewing
- Golden Longwing
- Isabella's Longwing
- Numata Longwing
- Tiger Longwing
- Vibilia Longwing
- Mexican Silverspot
- Mimic Eggfly
- Monarch
- Orion
- Orange Emigrant
- Plain Tiger
- Procilla Beauty
- Queen
- Question Mark
- Red Admiral
- Banded Grecian Shoemaker
- Grecian Shoemaker
- Mexican Shoemaker
- Sleepy Orange
- Smooth-banded Sister
- Spotted Amberwing
- Tawny Coaster
- Tawny Emperor
- Tiger Leafwing
- Tiger-Mimic Queen
- Cream-spotted Tigerwing
- Disturbed Tigerwing
- Harmonia Tigerwing
- Viceroy
- Atthis Longwing
- Black-veined Leafwing