List of butterflies of Tuvalu

Location of Tuvalu

This is a list of butterflies of Tuvalu.

Lycaenidae

Polyommatinae

Zizina labradus mangoensis (Butler, 1884)

Nymphalidae

Danainae

Danaus plexippus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Euploea lewinii distincta (Butler, 1874)

Nymphalinae

Hypolimnas bolina rarik von Eschscholtz, 1821
Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)

References

W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 Apr. 2006)
William Rainbow described the butterflies, spiders and insects collected at Funafuti by Charles Hedley: The insect fauna of Funafuti (Australian Museum, Sydney, 1897).^[1]

List of butterflies of Oceania

Sovereign states	Australia Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Associated states of New Zealand	Cook Islands Niue

Dependencies and other territories	American Samoa Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Easter Island French Polynesia Guam Hawaii New Caledonia Norfolk Island Northern Mariana Islands Pitcairn Islands Tokelau Wallis and Futuna

↑ Rainbow, William J. (1897). The insect fauna of Funafuti (PDF). Australian Museum Memoir 3(1): 89–104.

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