BUTTERFLIES OF GEORGIA’S PIEDMONT REGION

 

Phylum Arthropoda (arthropods), Class Insecta (insects), Order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Suborder Ditrysia (butterflies and most moths), Section Macrolepidoptera (butterflies and some moths), Subsection Rhopalocera (butterflies)

 

OUR BUTTERFLY FAMILIES

 

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Non Skippers, in the past often called the "true" butterflies) Superfamily Hesperioidea (Skippers)

family

Papilionidae

family

Pieridae

family

Lycaenidae

family

Riodinidae

family

Nymphalidae

family

Hesperiidae

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