List of butterflies of the United Arab Emirates

This is a list of butterflies of the United Arab Emirates. Over 50 species are known from the United Arab Emirates.United Arab Emirates at the African Butterfly Database

Papilionidae Papilioninae Papilionini Papilio machaon muetingi Seyer, 1976 Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758

Pieridae - whites and yellows Subfamily-Pierinae Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) caper white Colotis amata (Cramer, 1775) small salmon Arab Colotis danae (Klug, 1829) scarlet tip Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1804) salmon Arab Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829) desert orange tip Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) blue spotted Arab Euchloe transcaspica amseli (Gross & Ebert 1975) white desert black tip

Euchloe belemia (Esper, 1800) green striped white Pieris krueperi (de Nicéville, 1883) Krueper's small white Pieris rapae (Le Cerf, 1913) small cabbage white Pontia glauconome (Klug, 1829) desert white

Sub-family Coliadinae - yellows and sulphurs Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775) African emigrant Catopsilia pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) mottled emigrant Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785) clouded yellow Eurema hecabe solifera (Butler, 1875) common grass yellow

Nymphalidae - brush-footed butterflies Sub-family Danainae Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) plain tiger

Sub-family Nymphalinae Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764) diadem or danaid eggfly Junonia hierta Trimen, 1870 yellow pansy Junonia orithya Lang, 1884 blue pansy Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758) painted lady

Sub-family Satyrinae - browns Hipparchia parisatis (Kollar, 1849) white-edged rock brown Ypthima asterope (Klug, 1832) common three-ring Ypthima bolanica Marshall, 1882 Baluchi ringlet

Lycaenidae - blues Sub-family Theclinae Apharitis acamas hypargyros (Butler, 1886) tawny silverline Apharitis myrmecophila (Dumont, 1922) desert silverline Deudorix livia barnetti Libert, 2005 pomegranate playboy Myrina silenus Stoneham, 1937 fig blue

Sub-family Polyommatinae Agrodiaetus loewii (Walker, 1870) Loew's blue Anthene amarah amarah (Guerin, 1847) leaden ciliate blue Azanus jesous (Guerin, 1847) African babul blue Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, ) desert babul blue Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) western pygmy blue Chilades galba (Lederer, 1855) Lederer's Cupid Chilades pandava (Horsfield, 1829) cycad Cupid or plains Cupid Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) small Cupid Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845) grass jewel Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1793) gram blue Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767) pea blue Pseudophilotes vicrama (Christoph, 1887) eastern baton blue Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1844) Balkan Pierrot Tarucus rosacea (Austat, 1885) Mediterranean Pierrot Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865) Asian grass blue Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775) tiny grass blue

Hesperiidae-skippers Sub-family Coeliadinae Pyrrhiades anchises (Butler, 1861) giant skipper

Sub-family Pyriginae – grizzled skippers Gomalia elma (Trimen, 1862) African mallow skipper / marbled skipper Spialia colotes (de Jong, 1978) Transvaal grizzled skipper Spialia doris (Walker, 1870) desert grizzled skipper Spialia mafa (Trimen, 1870) Mafa grizzled skipper Spialia mangana (Rebel, 1899) Arabian grizzled skipper

Spialia zebra (Higgins, 1924) zebra grizzled skipper

Sub-family Hesperiinae – grass skippers Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793) Mediterranean skipper Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) pygmy skipper Pelopidas mathias (Fabricius, 1798) black-branded swift Pelopidas thrax (Hübner, 1821) white-branded swift

See also List of moths of the United Arab Emirates Wildlife of the United Arab Emirates

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