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Kent Butterflies Species
  
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This is not a definitive species list but represents species most likley to be seen in Kent. This list does not include rare migrants.

Please select a species from the list below or from the drop down menu above.


 

Species Name

Latin Name
  HESPERIIDAE (Skippers)
  Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
  Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola
  Silver-spotted Skipper Hesperia comma
  Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus
  Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages
  Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae

  PIERIDAE (Whites)
  Clouded Yellow Colias croceus
  Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
  Large White Pieris brassicae
  Small White Pieris rapae
 

Green-veined White

 Pieris napi
  Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines

  LYCAENIDAE (Blues)
  Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi
  Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus
  White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas
  Small Blue Cupido minimus
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus

  RIODINIDAE (Metalmarks)
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina

  NYMPHALIDAE (Vanessids & Fritillaries)
  White Admiral Limenitis camilla
 

Purple Emperor

Apatura iris
  Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
  Painted Lady Cynthia cardui
  Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae
  Peacock Inachis io
  Comma Polygonia c-album
  Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja
  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia

  SATYRIDAE (Browns)
  Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
  Wall Brown Lasiommata megera
  Marbled White Melanargia galathea
  Grayling Hipparchia semele
  Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
  Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus

 
 
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