Nymphalidae Collection (page 2)

Vanessa atlanta, red admiral
From Illustrations of British Butterflies: with occasional figures of the larva, pupa, and food-plant (1878) by Theo Johnson

Parthenos sylvia lilacinus, clipper butterfly
A subspecies of the clipper butterly from the Malay Peninsula. The clipper butterfly ranges from Sri Lanka, India and Thailand through Indonesia to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

Parthenos sylvia virens, clipper butterfly
A subspecies of clipper butterfly from southern India. The clipper butterfly ranges from Sri Lanka, India and Thailand through Indonesia to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

Boloria selene, small pearl bordered fritillary
Varieties of the small pearl bordered fritillary butterfly from the collection of the late R.M. Craske. Now in the National Collection of British Lepidoptera

Danaus melanippus taimanu from Sumba Island (Indonesia), male, upper side. A butterfly specimen held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Collections

Parantica dabrerai from Sulawezi, male, upper side. A butterfly specimen held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Collections

Danaus melanippus haruhasa from the Lesser Sunda Islands (Indonesia), male, upper side. A butterfly specimen held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Collections

Ideopsis juventa tawaya from Sulawezi, male, upper side. A butterfly specimen held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Collections

Danaus ismare alba from Sulawezi (Indonesia), male, upper side. A butterfly specimen held in the Natural History Museums Entomology Collections

Salamis augustina vinsoni, Mauritaian mother of pearl butter
The last specimen of the Mauritaian mother of pearl butterfly ever seen, collected in 1757. Now considered to be extinct

Doleschallia hexophthalmos, Autumn leaf butterfly
An unnatural event recorded in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London. This autumn leaf had three antennae

Parthenos sylvia thesaurus, clipper butterfly
A subspecies of the clipper butterfly from Guadalcanal. The clipper butterfly ranges from Sri Lanka, India and Thailand through Indonesia to New Guinea and the Solomon Islands

Danaus gilippus, Queen butterfly
Photograph of a mounted specimen of the Queen, which occurs on the Galapagos Islands

Papilio glaucus, Eastern tiger swallowtail
Plate from an album of unpublished watercolours of Lepidoptera by Eleazar Albin, 1720

Purple Emperor by John Curtis (1791 - 1862) from British Entomology

Comma, Polygonia c-album
Mounted specimens from the collections of The Natural History Museum

Bia actorian, South American butterfly wing
Scanning electron microscope (SEM) image of the fore-wing of the South American butterfly (x 2500)

Charaxes bernardus, tawny rajah
An illustrative plate from Insects of China by E. Donovan depicting tawny rajah butterflies

Butterfly lifecycle
Plate 109 from 298 water-colour drawings of insects and larvae, Frankfurdt 1622 by C. Flegel

Charles Badcock, gatekeeper, c. 1920
Charles Badcock, Police Constable no. 209, began work at the Museum in 1902, aged 43. In 1910 he joined the Museum staff as a front gatekeeper

Aglais urticae, small tortoiseshell
Plate 26 from Illustrations of British butterflies and their larvae, with the plants on which they feed, by Theo Johnson, 1892

Erebia aethiops, scotch argus butterfly

Parthenos sylvia salentia, clipper butterfly

Melanargia galathea, marbled white butterfly
Close-up of the wings of the Marbled white butterfly (Melanargia galathea), native to most of Europe and North Africa

Siproeta stelenes, Malachite butterfly
The malachite butterfly is named for the mineral malachite, which is similar in color to the bright green of the butterflys wings. It is found throughout the Southern United States to Brazil

Vanessa atalanta, red admiral
Photograph of a the upperside of mounted specimen of a female red admiral. Ranges from Europe and N. Africa to China and Japan, also N. America

Cethosia mietneri, Tamil lace wing butterfly
Detail from plate 39 of Tamil lace wing butterflies from The Lepidoptera of Celyon by Frederic C. Moore (1830 -1907)

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