#  General information on butterflies and moths (especially tropical) 

 



I include here some general links to Lepidoptera, especially tropical butterflies and particularly Neotropical Lepidoptera

- [Afrotropical butterflies and skippers (Mark Wilson)](http://www.atbutterflies.com/)
- [Association for Tropical Lepidoptera](http://www.troplep.org/)
- [Butterflies of the World: The Taxome Project. More than 80% complete scientific names (Gerardo Lamas et al.)](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/gbn/)
- [Butterflies of Ecuador (Keith Willmott & Jason Hall)](http://www.butterfliesofecuador.com)
- [Butterflies of Venezuela (Andrew Neild)](http://www.thebutterfliesofvenezuela.com)
- [Butterfly research, mainly Lycaenidae (Naomi Pierce)](http://www.oeb.harvard.edu/faculty/pierce/)
- [Costa Rica caterpillar database and other things (Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs)](http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu/)
- [*Heliconius* systematics (and other life forms! Markku Savela)](http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/nymphalidae/heliconiinae/heliconius/)
- [Lepidoptera of the French Antilles (Pierre Zagatti,; Bernard Lalanne-Cassou; Jeanne le Duchat d'Aubigny)](http://www.inra.fr/Internet/Produits/PAPILLON/indexeng.htm)
- [Natural History of Monteverde, Costa Rica](http://www.cs.umb.edu/~whaber/Monte/MV/MV-3.html) (including butterflies - especially [Ithomiinae](http://www.cs.umb.edu/~whaber/Monte/BF/Ithomid-spec.html), plants and other things; Bill Haber)
- [Type photos of Neotropical Butterflies (Tropical Andean Butterfly Diversity Project, Gerardo Lamas photos, Nick Grishin scripting)](http://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/Neotropical.htm)
- [Nymphalidae.net](http://www.nymphalidae.net/) and [Nymphalidae Systematics Group](http://nymphalidae.utu.fi/) (Niklas Wahlberg)
- Postzygotic isolation and speciation in Lepidoptera. Evolution 56: 1168-1183. [Data table](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/dmp/Presgraves%20Lep%20Data%20orig.xls) (As used by Gourbiere & Mallet 2010, currently neglected to be supplied by ([Daven Presgraves](http://www.rochester.edu/college/bio/professors/presgraves)).

### Portraits & quotations

- [Portraits of evolutionists and entomologists](/portraits)

### Mimicry, warning colour, aposematism

- [Mimicry, warning colour, aposematism](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/Mim/mimicry.html)

### *Heliconius* and Ithomiinae

- [General information on *Heliconius* butterflies](/heliconius)
- [General information on Ithomiinae](http://www.ucl.ac.uk/taxome/jim/ithinf.htm)



 

The Leafwing butterfly, *Zaretis isidora*, photographed in Corcovado National Park, Costa Rica, 1981 (© J. Mallet)

   ![zaretis_isidora](/sites/g/files/omnuum6606/files/styles/hwp_1_1__360x360_scale/public/2025-01/zaretis%20%281%29.jpg?itok=ikO2ovAb)