Butterflies of Costa Rica Photo Gallery by Gillian at pbase.com

Butterflies of Costa Rica

Butterflies were everywhere in Costa Rica, constantly flying around throughout the forests and the resort, even out over the Gulf of Papagayo! They were very active and seldom landed except to nectar on the flowers. I don't have a field guide for any of the butterflies of Costa Rica, and am using Google as my primary ID source; if I have made any mistakes, feel free to correct me.

Orcus Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus orcus)	Orcus Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus orcus)	Plain Longtail (Urbanus simplicius)	Butterfly sp.	Thoas Swallowtail (Papilio thoas)
Thoas Swallowtail (Papilio thoas)	White Angled Sulphur (Anteos clorinde)	Yellow Angled Sulphur (Anteos maerula)	Cloudless Sulfur (Phoebis sennae)	Deep-blue Eyed-Metalmark (Mesosemia asa asa)
Hecale Longwing (Heliconius hecale)	Hecale Longwing (Heliconius hecale)	Zebra Heliconian (Heliconius charithonia)	Banded Orange Heliconian (Dryadula phaetusa)	Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)
Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)	Julia Heliconian (Dryas iulia)	Tropical Buckeye (Junonia genoveva)	White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae)	Banded Peacock (Anartia fatima)
Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)	Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)	Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)	Malachite (Siproeta stelenes)	Glaucous Cracker Cracker (Hamadryas glauconome)
Guatemalan Cracker (Hamadryas guatemalena)	Ruddy Daggerwing (Marpesia petreus)	Many-banded Daggerwing (Marpesia chiron)	Blue Morpho (Morpho peleides)	Elf (Microtia elva)
Elf (Microtia elva)

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