List of butterflies of Samoa explained

This is a list of butterflies of Samoa and American Samoa.

Hesperiidae

Coeliadinae

• Badamia exclamationis (Fabricius, 1775)

Hesperiinae

• Oriens augustula alexina (Plötz, 1884)

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

• Papilio godeffroyi Semper, 1866

Pieridae

Coliadinae

• Eurema hecabe sulphurata (Butler, 1875)
• Belenois java schmeltzi Hopkins, 1927

Lycaenidae

Theclinae

• Deudorix epijarbas doris Hopkins, 1927

Polyommatinae

• Nacaduba dyopa dyopa (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• Jamides argentina (von Prittwitz, 1867)
• Catochrysops taitensis pepe (Hopkins, 1927)
• Famegana alsulus lulu (Mathew, 1889)
• Zizina labradus mangoensis (Butler, 1884)
• Zizula hylax dampierensis (Rothschild, 1915)
• Euchrysops cnejus samoa (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)

Nymphalidae

Danainae

• Tirumala hamata melittula (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• Tirumala hamata tutuilae (Hopkins, 1927)
• Danaus plexippus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)
• Euploea algea schmeltzi (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1869)
• Euploea lewinii bourkei (Poulton, 1924)

Satyrinae

• Melanitis leda hopkinsi Poulton & Riley, 1928

Nymphalinae

• Doleschallia tongana vomana (Fruhstorfer, 1902)
• Hypolimnas antilope lutescens (Butler, 1874)
• Hypolimnas errabunda Hopkins, 1927
• Hypolimnas octocula octocula (Butler, 1869)
• Hypolimnas bolina pallescens (Butler, 1874)
• Junonia villida villida (Fabricius, 1787)

Heliconiinae

• Vagrans egista bowdenia (M. R. Butler, 1874)
• Phalanta exulans (Hopkins, 1927)

Acraeinae

• Acraea andromacha polynesiaca Rebel, 1910

References

• W.John Tennent: A checklist of the butterflies of Melanesia, Micronesia, Polynesia and some adjacent areas. Zootaxa 1178: 1-209 (21 Apr. 2006)