Butterflies of Monteverde

Links


Links to other sites with information about Costa Rican butterflies (though not necessarily exclusively so). Some of these sites offer images or information on collections and distribution.

Butterflies and Moths of North America
A relatively complete database on North American butterflies. Has enough overlap with the Costa Rican fauna to be quite useful. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBIO)
Species pages and database of collection records at INBIO. http://www.inbio.ac.cr/

Caterpillars of Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rica.
A huge database of rearing records and images of early stages from D. H. Janzen's Lepidoptera project. http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu

Caterpillars of La Selva Biological Station
Images and hostplant data on Lepidoptera reared at a lowland Atlantic rain forest site in northeastern Costa Rica. http://www.tulane.edu/~ldyer/lsacatold/Families.htm

ITIS, the Integrated Taxonomic Information System
An up-to-date, authoritative taxonomic information source for scientific names and classification. http://www.itis.gov/

A site in Sweden with taxonomic information for butterflies worldwide.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/

Butterflies and Skippers of North America
http://www.nearctica.com/butter/index.htm

Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera
A wealth of links to sites related to every aspect of Lepidoptera http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/lepidoptera.html

Butterfly intro, Butterfly lists

Images and text copyright © 2001-2007 by William A. Haber, http://efg.cs.umb.edu/
Created: 1 May 2001. Updated: 20 February 2007.