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List of butterflies of Mauritania

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This is a list of butterflies of Mauritania. About 30 species are known from Mauritania, none of which are endemic.

Papilionidae

Papilioninae

Papilionini

Papilio demodocus Esper, [1798]

Pieridae

Pierinae

Colotis amata calais (Cramer, 1775)
Colotis antevippe (Boisduval, 1836)
Colotis aurora evarne (Klug, 1829)
Colotis chrysonome (Klug, 1829)
Colotis danae eupompe (Klug, 1829)
Colotis liagore (Klug, 1829)
Colotis phisadia (Godart, 1819)
Colotis vesta amelia (Lucas, 1852)
Colotis eris (Klug, 1829)
Pinacopterix eriphia tritogenia (Klug, 1829)
Euchloe falloui (Allard, 1867)

Pierini

Pontia daplidice (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pontia glauconome Klug, 1829
Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793)
Belenois gidica (Godart, 1819)

Lycaenidae

Theclinae

Theclini

Hypolycaena philippus (Fabricius, 1793)

Polyommatinae

Lycaenesthini

Anthene kikuyu (Bethune-Baker, 1910)

Polyommatini

Cupidopsis jobates mauritanica Riley, 1932
Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1843)
Tarucus rosacea (Austaut, 1885)
Zizeeria knysna (Trimen, 1862)
Euchrysops malathana (Boisduval, 1833)

Nymphalidae

Danainae

Danaini

Danaus chrysippus alcippus (Cramer, 1777)

Limenitinae

Adoliadini

Hamanumida daedalus (Fabricius, 1775)

Hesperiidae

Coeliadinae

Coeliades forestan (Stoll, [1782])

Pyrginae

Celaenorrhinini

Sarangesa laelius (Mabille, 1877)

Carcharodini

Spialia doris daphne Evans, 1949
Spialia spio (Linnaeus, 1764)

Hesperiinae

Baorini

Borbo borbonica (Boisduval, 1833)

References

[https://abdb-africa.org/locality/Mauritania?oid=48 Mauritania at the African Butterfly Database]
[http://atbutterflies.com/mauritania.htm Afrotropical Butterflies]

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