List of butterflies of Mauritius

Location of Mauritius

This is a list of butterflies of Mauritius. About 39 species are known from Mauritius^[1] and Rodrigues,^[2] 7 of which are endemic.^[3]

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Papilionini

Papilio demodocus Esper, [1798]
Papilio manlius Fabricius, 1798

Pieridae

Coliadinae

Eurema brigitta pulchella (Boisduval, 1833)
Eurema floricola ceres (Butler, 1886)
Catopsilia florella thauruma (Reakirt, 1866)

Lycaenidae

Theclinae

Theclini

Deudorix antalus (Hopffer, 1855)

Polyommatinae

Polyommatini

Pseudonacaduba sichela reticulum (Mabille, 1877)
Cacyreus darius (Mabille, 1877)
Cyclyrius mandersi (Druce, 1907)
Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)
Zizina antanossa (Mabille, 1877)
Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775)
Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)

Nymphalidae

Libytheinae

Libythea cinyras Trimen, 1866

Danainae

Danaini

Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Amauris phoedon (Fabricius, 1798)
Euploea desjardinsii (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
Euploea euphon (Fabricius, 1798)

Satyrinae

Satyrini

Heteropsis narcissus (Fabricius, 1798)

Melanitini

Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nymphalinae

Nymphalini

Antanartia borbonica mauritiana Manders, 1908
Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Junonia goudotii (Boisduval, 1833)
Junonia rhadama (Boisduval, 1833)
Salamis augustina vinsoni Le Cerf, 1922
Hypolimnas anthedon drucei (Butler, 1874)
Hypolimnas bolina jacintha (Drury, [1773])
Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)

Limenitinae

Neptidini

Neptis frobenia (Fabricius, 1798)

Heliconiinae

Vagrantini

Phalanta phalantha aethiopica (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903)

Hesperiidae

Coeliadinae

Coeliades ernesti (Grandidier, 1867)
Coeliades forestan (Stoll, [1782])

Pyrginae

Tagiadini

Eagris sabadius (Gray, 1832)

Hesperiinae

Aeromachini

Erionota thrax (Linnaeus, 1767)

Baorini

Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)
Parnara naso (Fabricius, 1798)

References

List of butterflies of Africa

Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Côte d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland

Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla / Plazas de soberanía (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

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