British Insects: Butterflies
British Insects: Butterflies |
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Interactive key, including interactive information retrieval
The interactive key allows free choice of characters, is easy to use, and can lead to correct identifications in spite of occasional errors. It can display all the illustrations, full and partial descriptions, diagnostic descriptions, differences and similarities between taxa, lists of taxa exhibiting or lacking specified attributes, and distributions of character states within any set of taxa.
Character list • General morphology of Lepidoptera • Implicit attributes
Notes on John Curtis’s British Entomology • Notes on Edward Newman’s British Moths and British Butterflies • Updated insect names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated plant names for John Curtis’s British Entomology • Updated legends for Stainton’s Natural History of the Tineina • Notes on melanism in British moths • Notes on the scanning of the images
Poems on insects by Giles Watson
Acknowledgements • References • Citation • Contacts, conditions of use, contributions
These descriptions were generated from a DELTA database (Dallwitz 1980; Dallwitz, Paine, and Zurcher 1993). The bold parts are diagnostic descriptions, generated with the aid of Intkey (Dallwitz et al. 1993). They distinguish all of the families and most of the genera in at least two respects from the other taxa of the same level.
• Hesperiidae • Carcharodus • Carterocephalus • Erynnis • Hesperia • Hylephila • Ochlodes • Pyrgus • Thymelicus
• Lycaenidae • Aricia • Cacyreus • Callophrys • Celastrina • Cupido • Cyaniris • Everes • Glaucopsyche • Lampides • Leptotes • Lycaena • Lysandra • Maculinea • Neozephyrus • Plebejus • Plebicula • Polyommatus • Satyrium • Thecla
• Nymphalidae • Aglais • Apatura • Araschnia • Argynnis • Boloria • Cynthia • Euphydryas • Inachis • Issoria • Junonia • Limenitis • Melitaea • Nymphalis • Polygonia • Vanessa
• Papilionidae • Iphiclides • Papilio • Parnassius • Zerynthia
• Pieridae • Anthocharis • Aporia • Colias • Euchloë • Gonepteryx • Leptidea • Pieris • Pontia
• Riodinidae • Hamearis
• Satyridae • Aphantopus • Arethusana • Chazara • Coenonympha • Erebia • Hipparchia • Lasiommata • Maniola • Melanargia • Pararge • Pyronia
Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. British insects: butterflies. Version: 29th December 2011. http://delta-intkey.com’.
Insect groups treated separately in the ‘British Insects’ package
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