Butterflies - Eswatini's Biodiversity

Eswatini's Butterflies: Families, Subfamilies and Tribes

An Adobe pdf version of the Eswatini Butterflies Checklist as at August 2013 is available here (click to view/download - approx 13 MB).

View lists of butterflies by eighth degree grid square

Eswatini's Butterflies by family, subfamily and tribe:

For detailed information on each species, click on the species name.

	Lycaenidae Polyommatinae Polyommatini	Blues and coppers
585	Actizera lucida Rayed blue Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula
576	Azanus jesous Topaz babul blue Mlawula
579	Azanus mirza Pale babul blue Malolotja Mlawula
578	Azanus moriqua Black-bordered babul blue Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula
577	Azanus natalensis Natal babul blue Mlawula
575	Azanus ubaldus Velvet-spotted babul blue Mlawula
489	Cacyreus fracta fracta Water geranium bronze Malolotja
487	Cacyreus lingeus Bush bronze Malolotja Mantenga
490	Cacyreus marshalli Common geranium bronze Malolotja
488	Cacyreus virilis Mocker bronze Malolotja Mlawula
570	Cupidopsis cissus cissus Common meadow blue Malolotja
571	Cupidopsis jobates jobates Tailed meadow blue Malolotja Mlawula
569	Eicochrysops hippocrates White-tipped blue Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula
568	Eicochrysops messapus mahallakoaena Cupreous blue Malolotja Mlawula
564	Euchrysops barkeri Barker's smoky blue Mlawula
566	Euchrysops dolorosa Sabie smoky blue Malolotja
565	Euchrysops malathana Common smoky blue Malolotja Mlawula
563	Euchrysops osiris Osiris smoky blue Malolotja Mlawula
567	Euchrysops subpallida Ashen smoky blue Malolotja Mlawula
507	Harpendyreus noquasa Marsh mountain blue Malolotja
499	Lampides boeticus Pea blue Malolotja Mlawula
553	Lepidochrysops glauca Silvery blue Malolotja Mlawula
524	Lepidochrysops ignota Zulu Blue Malolotja
525	Lepidochrysops irvingi Irving's blue Malolotja
535	Lepidochrysops jefferyi Jeffery's blue
551	Lepidochrysops patricia Patricia blue Malolotja Mlawula
550	Lepidochrysops plebeia plebeia Twin-spot blue Malolotja
532	Lepidochrysops procera Potchefstroom blue
	Lepidochrysops sp. Malolotja
528	Lepidochrysops swanepoeli Swanepoel's blue
534	Lepidochrysops tantalus King blue
510	Lepidochrysops variabilis Variable blue Malolotja
503	Leptotes babaulti Babault's zebra blue Mlawula
501	Leptotes brevidentatus Short-toothed zebra blue
502	Leptotes jeanneli Jeannel's zebra blue
500	Leptotes pirithous pirithous Common zebra blue Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula
504	Leptotes pulchra pulchra Sesbania blue Mlawula
	Leptotes sp.
531	Orachrysops lacrimosa Restless blue Malolotja
531.5	Orachrysops subravus Grizzled blue
581	Oraidium barberae Dwarf blue Mlawula
508	Pseudonacaduba sichela sichela Dusky line blue
498.1	Tarucus bowkeri transvaalensis Bowker's dotted blue
496	Tarucus sybaris sybaris Dotted blue Mlawula
493	Tuxentius calice calice White pie
494	Tuxentius melaena melaena Black pie Malolotja Mlawula
485	Uranothauma nubifer nubifer Black heart
492	Zintha hintza hintza Hintza pierrot
	Zintha hintza krooni Hintza pierrot
582	Zizeeria knysna African grass blue Malolotja Mantenga Mlawula
583	Zizina otis antanossa Dark grass blue Mlawula
584	Zizula hylax Tiny grass blue Malolotja Mlawula

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