Linnaeus described 305 taxa under the name Papilio. Of these, 241 refer to currently valid butterfly species names and two to subspecies. This site has been developed as an adjunct to a paper ...

Photographer and National Geographic Explorer Rena Effendi learned that a little-known species was named after her late ...

Check out the butterflies in your area If you live in New York, N.Y., 128 species included in the study may be found in your part of the country. “The loss that we’re seeing over such a short ...

Taken together, the researchers suggest, the data strongly supports the hybrid as a unique species. They have therefore given the butterfly its own name: Papilio solstitius, a nod to its midsummer ...

Two-thirds of studied species declined by more than 10%, the study said. Butterfly populations have dropped by 22% across 554 recorded species in the United States, according to a new study in the ...

U.S. officials moved Tuesday to protect the monarch, an iconic orange-and-black butterfly famous for its marathon migration across North America, under the Endangered Species Act. The U.S. Fish ...

Of the 554 butterfly species recorded, there were 13 times as many species in decline as increasing. Two-thirds of the studied species have declined by more than 10%. One of the authors of the ...