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Underside of a Gulf fritillary (Agraulis vanillae). Found from Argentina north through Central America, Mexico, and the Caribbean to the southern United States.

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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), found feeding in Syracuse, NY. One of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica and South America. 

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Monarch (Danaus plexippus), found feeding in Maine. In North America, the monarch ranges from southern Canada through northern South America. It appears in the UK in some years as an accidental migrant.

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Blue-spotted Charaxes (Charaxes cithaeron). Found across Africa. 

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Brown Clipper (Parthenos sylvia). Found in South and South-East Asia, mostly in forested areas.

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Mocker Swallowtail (Papilio dardanus). Broadly distributed throughout Sub-Saharan Africa. 

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African moon moth (Argema mimosae). Found widely in Eastern Africa and more locally in Southern Africa, including near the east coast of South Africa.

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White Peacock (Anartia jatrophae). Found in the southeastern United States, Central America, and throughout much of South America.

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Spicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus), found feeding in Central Park. Found only in the eastern US and southern Ontario, but occasionally strays as far as the American Midwest, Cuba, Manitoba and Colorado. 

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Monarchs (Danaus plexippus), found mating in Central Park. In North America, the monarch ranges from southern Canada through northern South America. It appears in the UK in some years as an accidental migrant.

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Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui), found feeding in Central Park. One of the most widespread of all butterflies, found on every continent except Antarctica and South America.

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Spotted an Eastern-Tailed Blue (Cupido comyntas) at the New York Botanical Garden. Common across eastern North America, and is found as far south as Central America.

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Common buckeye (Junonia coenia). It is found in southern Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec, and Nova Scotia and all parts of the United States except the northwest, and is especially common in the south, the California coast, and throughout Central America and Colombia.

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Common mime (Papilio dissimilis). Found in south and southeast Asia.

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Dorsal view of a Blue Bellybutton (Prepona laertes). Found in large parts of Central and South America.

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Paper Kite (Idea leuconoe). Found throughout Southeast Asia.

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The tailed jay (Graphium agamemnon). Found in India, Sri Lanka and through Southeast Asia and Australia.