List of butterflies of Chad

Location of Chad

This is a list of butterflies of Chad. About 46 species are known from Chad,^[1] 1 of which is endemic.^[2]

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Leptocercini

• Graphium angolanus baronis (Ungemach, 1932)
• Graphium ridleyanus (White, 1843)
• Graphium leonidas (Fabricius, 1793)
• Graphium latreillianus theorini (Aurivillius, 1881)
• Graphium ucalegonides (Staudinger, 1884)

Pieridae

Coliadinae

• Eurema brigitta (Stoll, [1780])
• Eurema hecabe solifera (Butler, 1875)
• Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
• Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785)

Pierinae

• Colotis aurora evarne (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis celimene sudanicus (Aurivillius, 1905)
• Colotis danae eupompe (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis euippe euippe (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Colotis euippe mirei Bernardi, 1960
• Colotis fausta (Olivier, 1807)
• Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819)
• Colotis pleione nilus Talbot, 1942
• Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829)
• Calopieris eulimene (Klug, 1829)
• Eronia leda (Boisduval, 1847)
• Pinacopterix eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829)
• Euchloe falloui (Allard, 1867)

Pierini

• Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Pontia glauconome Klug, 1829
• Dixeia doxo (Godart, 1819)
• Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793)

Lycaenidae

Miletinae

Miletini

• Lachnocnema abyssinica Libert, 1996

Theclinae

• Myrina silenus (Fabricius, 1775)

Aphnaeini

• Cigaritis baghirmii (Stempffer, 1946)
• Cigaritis buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
• Cigaritis nilus (Hewitson, 1865)
• Axiocerses harpax kadugli Talbot, 1935

Theclini

• Iolaus sudanicus Aurivillius, 1905
• Deudorix livia (Klug, 1834)

Polyommatinae Polyommatini

• Tarucus legrasi Stempffer, 1948
• Tarucus rosacea (Austaut, 1885)
• Tarucus ungemachi Stempffer, 1942
• Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857)
• Chilades eleusis (Demaison, 1888)

Nymphalidae

Satyrinae

Melanitini

• Melanitis libya Distant, 1882

Charaxinae

Charaxini

• Charaxes viola Butler, 1866
• Charaxes nichetes leopardinus Plantrou, 1974

Nymphalinae

Nymphalini

• Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)

Heliconiinae

Acraeini

• Acraea caecilia (Fabricius, 1781)

See also

• List of ecoregions in Chad
• Geography of Chad

References

1. African Butterfly Database
2. Afrotropical Butterflies

• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Plates
• Seitz, A. Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 13: Die Afrikanischen Tagfalter. Text (in German)