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Arizona Butterflies and Moths

Arizona Butterflies and Moths

Photographs and information about some of the butterflies and moths (Order Lepidoptera) found here in Arizona.

  • American Lady Butterfly
  • American Snout (Libytheana carinenta)
  • Arizona Powdered Skipper
  • Beware of Stinging Caterpillars
  • Black Witch Moth
  • Bordered Patch Butterflies
  • Butterflies Battered, But Still Flying
  • California Sister Butterfly
  • Camouflaged Moth
  • Ceraunus Blue Butterflies
  • Checkered White Butterfly, Male
  • Chiricahua Pine White
  • Colorful Caterpillar of a Lirimiris truncata
  • Common Checkered-Skipper, Male
  • Dainty Sulphur Butterflies
  • Death of a Tiny Checkerspot Butterfly
  • Elada Checkerspot Butterfly
  • Empress Leilia
  • Friendly American Snout
  • Funereal Duskywing Butterfly
  • Giant Swallowtail Butterflies and Caterpillars
  • Golden-headed Scallopwing
  • Gray Hairstreak Butterflies
  • Gray Hairstreak Revealed
  • Great Purple Hairstreak
  • Gulf Fritillary
  • Hackberry Emperor Investigating a Beetle
  • Hammock Skipper
  • Hubbard's Silkmoths (Sphingicampa hubbardi)
  • Marine Blue Butterfly
  • Moth in the Yellow Light
  • Northern Cloudywing Butterflies
  • Painted Lady Butterfly
  • Palmer's Metalmark Butterfly
  • Parry's Beardtongue and Pipevine Swallowtails
  • Pearl Crescent
  • Pink-spotted Hawkmoth
  • Pipevine Swallowtail
  • Pipevine Swallowtail Caterpillar
  • Pipevine Swallowtails on the Sand
  • Queen Butterfly
  • Rawson's Metalmark
  • Reakirt's Blue Butterfly
  • Silver-banded Hairstreak
  • Sleepy Orange Butterflies
  • Southern Dogface Butterfly
  • Southern Emerald Moth
  • Spring Azure Butterflies
  • Tailed Orange Butterfly, Summer Form
  • Tawny Emperor
  • Taxiles Skipper Butterfly
  • Texan Crescent
  • Texan Crescent Butterfly
  • The First White-lined Sphinx of the Year
  • Tropical Buckeye Butterflies
  • Two-tailed Swallowtail
  • Variegated Fritillary
  • Veined Ctenucha (Ctenucha venosa)
  • West Coast Lady
  • Western Pygmy-Blue Butterflies
  • White-lined Sphinx Caterpillar
  • White-lined Sphinx Moths
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