This is a list of butterflies of Saudi Arabia. About 79 species are known from Saudi Arabia.
Papilionidae
Papilioninae
Papilionini
- Papilio demodocus demodocus Esper,
- Papilio demoleus demoleus Linnaeus, 1758
- Papilio machaon syriacus Verity, 1908
- Papilio saharae rathjensi Warnecke, 1932
- Papilio saharae saharae Oberthür, 1879
Pieridae
Coliadinae
- Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775)
- Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785) = Colias crocea
- Colias electo meneliki Berger, 1940
- Colias erate marnoana Rogenhofer, 1884
- Eurema brigitta brigitta (Stoll, )
- Eurema hecabe solifera (Butler, 1875)
Pierinae
Teracolini
- Colotis amata calais (Cramer, 1775)
- Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819) incl. Colotis phisadia phisadia (Godart, 1819)
- Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829) incl. Colotis chrysonome chrysonome (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis evarne (Klug, 1829) = Colotis aurora evarne (Klug, 1829) also mentioned as Colotis eucharis evarne
- Colotis fausta vi (Swinhoe, 1884)
- Colotis fausta fausta (Olivier, 1804)
- Colotis antevippe zera (Lucas, 1852)
- Colotis daira daira (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis danae eupompe (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis ephyia (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis euippe exole (Reiche, 1850)
- Colotis evippe epigone (Felder, 1865)
- Colotis evagore evagore (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis halimede halimede (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis pleione pleione (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis protomedia (Klug, 1829)
- Colotis ungemachi (Le Cerf, 1922)
- Calopieris eulimene (Klug, 1829)
- Teracolus eris contractus Gabriel, 1954 = Colotis eris contractus
- Pinacopteryx eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829)
- Pieris rapae iranica Le Cerf, 1913
- Pieris rapae leucosoma Schawerda, 1905
Nepheroniini
- Nepheronia buquetii buchanani (Rothschild, 1921)
- Euchloe aegyptiaca Verity, 1911 = Euchloe melanochloros aegyptiaca Verity, 1911
- Euchloe belemia belemia Esper, 1799
- Euchloe falloui falloui (Allard, 1867)
- Euchloe falloui saudi Larsen, 1983
- Elphinstonia charlonia charlonia (Donzel, 1842)
- Zegris eupheme larseni Pittaway, 1986
Pierini
- Mylothris arabicus Gabriel, 1954
- Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793)
- Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819)
- Belenois creona leucogyne Butler, 1885
- Pontia daplidice daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Pontia glauconome glauconome (Klug, 1829)
Lycaenidae
Aphnaeinae
- Axiocerces harpax kadugli Talbot, 1935
- Chloroselas esmeralda bilqis Larsen, 1983
Theclinae
- Myrina silenus nzoiae d'Abrera, 1980
Hypolycaenini
- Hypolycaena pachalica Butler, 1888
- Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793)
- Iolaus glaucus Butler, 1886
- Iolaus nursei Butler, 1896
- Deudorix antalus (Hopffer, 1855)
- Deudorix dinochares Smith, 1887
- Deudorix livia (Klug, 1834)
Lycaeninae
- Lycaena phlaeas shima Gabriel, 1954
Polyommatinae
Lycaenesthini
- Anthene amarah (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)
- Anthene arora Larsen, 1983
- Anthene butleri arabicus Gabriel, 1954
Polyommatini
- Cacyreus virilis Stempffer, 1936
- Cupidopsis jobates (Hopffer, 1855)
- Leptotes pirithous (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Tuxentius gabrieli Balint, 1999
- Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1843)
- Tarucus rosacea (Austaut, 1885)
- Tarucus theophrastus (Fabricius, 1793)
- Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865)
- Zizina antanossa (Mabille, 1877)
- Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775)
- Azanus jesous (Guérin-Méneville, 1849)
- Azanus moriqua (Wallengren, 1857)
- Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, 1782)
- Pseudophilotes abencerragus nabataeus (Graves, 1925)
- Euchrysops lois (Butler, 1886)
- Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval, 1833)
- Euchrysops osiris (Hopffer, 1855)
- Euchrysops philbyi Gabriel, 1954
- Freyeria trochylus (Freyer, )
- Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793)
- Plebejidea loewii uranicola (Walker, 1870)
- Kretania philbyi (Graves, 1925)
- Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767)
- Lepidochrysops forsskali Larsen, 1982
- Lepidochrysops haveni (Larsen, 1983)
- Lepidochrysops pittawayi Larsen, 1983
- Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852)
Nymphalidae
Libythea laius Trimen, 1879
Danainae
Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Satyrinae
Melanitini
- Melanitis leda (Linnaeus, 1758)
Satyrini
- Lasiommata felix (Warnecke, 1929)
- Ypthima asterope (Klug, 1832)
- Hipparchia tewfiki (Wiltshire, 1949)
Charaxini
- Charaxes hansali yemeni Turlin, 1998
- Charaxes bernstorffi Rydon, 1982
Nymphalinae
Nymphalini
- Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758)
Junoniini
- Junonia chorimene (Guérin-Méneville, 1844)
- Junonia hierta cebrene Trimen, 1870
- Junonia orithya here Lang, 1884
- Precis limnoria limnoria (Klug, 1845)
- Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764)
- Melitaea deserticola macromaculata Belter, 1934
- Melitaea persea sargon Hemming, 1932 (It must be compared to Melitaea acentria arabica)
- Protogoniomorpha anacardii nebulosa Trimen, 1881
Biblidinae
Biblidini
- Byblia anvatara acheloia (Wallengren, 1857)
- Byblia ilithyia (Drury, 1773)
- Eurytela dryope brittoni Gabriel, 1954
Limenitinae
Chalingini
- Hamanumida daedalus (Fabricius, 1775)
Heliconiinae
Acraeini
- Acraea chilo yemensis Le Doux, 1931
- Acraea neobule Doubleday, 1847
- Acraea doubledayi azvaki d'Abrera, 1980
- Acraea encedon rathjensi Le Doux, 1933 = Telechinia encedon rathjensi Le Doux, 1933
- Acraea serena (Fabricius, 1775) = Telechinia serena (Fabricius, 1775)
Hesperiidae
- Caprona pillaana (Wallengren, 1857)
Pyrginae
Celaenorrhinini
- Sarangesa phidyle (Walker, 1870)
Carcharodini
- Spialia bifida (Higgins, 1924), previously known as Spialia zebra bifida
- Spialia colotes semiconfluens de Jong, 1978
- Spialia colotes torbenlarseni (Tshikolovets, 2022)
- Spialia doris (Walker, 1870)
- Spialia mafa higginsi Evans, 1937
- Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764)
- Gomalia elma (Trimen, 1862)
Hesperiinae
Baorini
- Borbo gemella (Mabille, 1884) = Larsenia gemella (Mabille, 1884)
- Borbo fatuellus (Hopffer, 1855)
- Borbo borbonica zelleri (Lederer, 1855)
- Gegenes hottentota (Latreille, 1824)
- Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793)
- Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmansegg, 1804)
- Pelopidas mathias mathias (Fabricius, 1798)
- Pelopidas thrax thrax (Hübner, 1821)
See also
References
- Saudi Arabia at the African Butterfly Database
- ^ Larsen, Torben B. (1984). Butterflies of Saudi Arabia and its neighbours. Riyadh : London: Transworld Arabian Library; Stacey International. ISBN 978-0-905743-36-3.
- ^ Tshikolovets, Vadim (2024). "Notes on butterflies of Saudi Arabia II (Rhopalocera: Hesperiidae, Pieridae, Lycaenidae and Nymphalidae)". Atalanta. 55 ((1/2)): 248–249.
- ^ Tshikolovets, Vadim (2022). "Notes on butterflies of Saudi Arabia with a description of a new subspecies (Rhopalocera, Lycaenidae, Nymphalidae et Hesperiidae)". Atalanta. 53 (1/2): 205–208.
- ^ Verovnik, Rudi; Kosmač, Marko; Ishag, Alrabea A. E.; Dhafer, Hathal M. Al; Seizmair, Michael (2024-01-23). "Mount Faifa, a local hotspot of butterfly diversity (Lepidoptera: Papilionoidea) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia". Ecologica Montenegrina. 71: 41–52. doi:10.37828/em.2024.71.6. ISSN 2336-9744.
- Alfakih, Ateah; Faify, Eisa Ali Al (2023-12-23), The clouded mother-of-pearl Protogoniomorpha anacardii Linnaeus, 1758 (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) – a new record of butterfly for Saudi Arabia, doi:10.1101/2023.12.22.572884, retrieved 2023-12-24
