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Butterfly TaxonomyThe taxonomy of butterflies (their classification), with species from the British Isles listed, is given in the table below. The taxonomy shown here is taken from "Checklist of Lepidoptera Recorded from the British Isles" by J.D.Bradley. Other useful information sources include Fauna Europaea, The Lepidoptera Taxome Project at University College London, The Natural History Museum LepIndex, Markku Savela's FUNet project, "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World" by Paul Smart, and The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland Volume 7 (1) Hesperiidae to Nymphalidae (the Butterflies). My thanks to Piers Vigus and Adrian Hoskins for giving me various pointers as this page was put together. The following table is preceded by the following additional taxonomic information related to butterflies:
The column labelled "forms" lists any forms associated with the species. The column labelled "B & F" refers to the Bradley and Fletcher log book number. The more primitive species are listed first.  Site brought to you by Webified |