Folgende Schmetterlingsarten kommen in Palau vor:
Hesperiidae Coeliadinae Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775) Hasora chromus chromus (Cramer, 1780)
Hesperiinae Parnara bada (Moore, 1878)
Papilionidae Papilioninae Graphium agamemnon enoplus Jordan, 1909 Papilio polytes palewensis Nakamura, 1933
Pieridae Coliadinae Catopsilia pomona (Fabricius, 1775) Catopsilia pyranthe pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) Eurema hecabe marginata (Kishida, 1933) Eurema brigitta nebulosa (Kishida, 1933)
Pierinae Appias ada ardens (Butler, 1898)
Lycaenidae Theclinae Bindahara phocides isabella (C Felder, 1860)
Polyommatinae Petrelaea tombugensis (Röber, 1886) Prosotas dubiosa dubiosa (Semper, 1879) Jamides bochus palauensis (Fruhstorfer, 1915) Catochrysops panormus papuana Tite, 1959 Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767) Leptotes plinius pseudocassius (Murray, 1873) Everes lacturnus pulchra (Rothschild, 1915) Acytolepis puspa watasei (Matsumura, 1915) Euchrysops cnejus cnidus Waterhouse and Lyell, 1914
Nymphalidae Danainae Danaus affinis rubrica (Fruhstorfer, 1907) Danaus plexippus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) Euploea eunice kadu (von Eschscholtz, 1821) Euploea algea abjecta (Butler, 1866)
Satyrinae Melanitis leda ponapensis Mathew, 1889
Nymphalinae Hypolimnas antilope anomala (Wallace, 1869) Hypolimnas octocula arakalulk (Semper, 1906) Hypolimnas bolina nerina (Fabricius, 1775) Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764) Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787) Junonia hedonia zelima (Fabricius, 1775)
Heliconiinae Vagrans egista brixia (Fruhstorfer, 1912) Phalanta exulans (Hopkins, 1927)
Literatur W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21. Apr. 2006), mapress.com.
Schmetterlinge in Palau Kategorie:Palau Kategorie:Lepidopterologie