10 Most Beautiful Species of Butterflies

1. Silvery Blue Butterfly

These are small and iridescent blue butterflies and are found in North America and Canada. They are fed on the host plants on which the eggs are being laid.

2. Metal Mark Butterfly

Their scientific name is Apodemia Mormo Langei and is found in North America. These are the brightly colored butterflies. They have several generations a year.

3. Antheraea Mylitta

Their common name is Tasar silkworm, these have the egg shaped cocoons and very attractive larvae. These have the colors like sandy yellow, brownish grey, chocolate brown, bronze, reddish-brown and chromium yellow.

4. Orchard Swallowtail

This is also called as Large Citrus Butterflies and is the largest butterflies. These are slow and erratic and belong to the Papilionidae family. Their food is the citrus trees like orange and lemon trees.

5. Banded Orange

The Banded Orange Heliconian, also called as Dryadula Phaetusa is found in Brazil to Central Mexico. They feed themselves the flower nectar and the bird droppings.

6. Junonia Coenia

They are from the Nymphalidae family and is found in Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia. It is also called as Buckeye because of the eyespots and white bars on the wings. The eyes are used for distracting the enemies.

7. Question Mark Butterfly

This is a North American nymphalid butterfly and has the scientific name of Polygonia interrogationis. They are found in the parks and wooded areas. Their food sources are rotting fruit, tree sap, dung or carrion but when nothing is available they visit flowers for nectar.

8. Banded Peacock Butterfly

This is also called Papilio Crino and is a species of swallowtail butterfly. This is found in South Asia including India and Sri Lanka. This is a fast flyer and can fly really high above and forages on the trees. It has the shiny fluorescent blue or green color.

9. Spicebush Swallowtail

This is a black swallowtail butterfly and is found in North America. They have the spoon shaped tails and have ivory spots on forewings and orange spots on hind wings. These are normally found in deciduous woods.

10. Sapho Longwing

Its origin is Costa Rica and is from the Heliconidae family. Their food plant is passiflora pittieri. They don’t put their eggs in one basket and have the high rate of extinction. Their only food is the Passion Vine which is also called at Pittier’s Passion Vine.