List of butterflies of Mauritania

Location of Mauritania

This is a list of butterflies of Mauritania. About 30 species are known from Mauritania,^[1] none of which is endemic.^[2]

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Papilionini

• Papilio demodocus Esper, [1798]

Pieridae

Pierinae

• Colotis amata calais (Cramer, 1775)
• Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836)
• Colotis aurora evarne (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis danae eupompe (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
• Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819)
• Colotis vesta amelia (Lucas, 1852)
• Colotis eris (Klug, 1829)
• Pinacopterix eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829)
• Euchloe falloui (Allard, 1867)

Pierini

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

Lycaenidae

Theclinae

Theclini

• Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793)

Polyommatinae

Lycaenesthini

• Anthene kikuyu (Bethune-Baker, 1910)

Polyommatini

• Cupidopsis jobates mauritanica Riley, 1932
• Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1843)
• Tarucus rosacea (Austaut, 1885)
• Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)
• Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval, 1833)

Nymphalidae

Danainae

Danaini

• Danaus chrysippus alcippus (Cramer, 1777)

Limenitinae

Adoliadini

• Hamanumida daedalus (Fabricius, 1775)

Hesperiidae

Coeliadinae

• Coeliades forestan (Stoll, [1782])

Pyrginae

Celaenorrhinini

• Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877)

Carcharodini

• Spialia doris daphne Evans, 1949
• Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764)

Hesperiinae

Baorini

• Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)

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)