Nymphalidae - brush-footed butterflies

With around 6,000 species, this is the largest family of butterfly. Many species, like the monarch butterfly, are very colorful. Butterflies in this family are called brush-foots because of their tiny forelegs. Their front two legs look more like brushes than feet and are not used for walking. Many species in this family have some brown or orange on their wings and veins on their forewings. Most species have long antennae with rounded clubs at the end. Most of the caterpillars in this family are colorful and covered with spines or hair.

Endangered in N.H.	Threatened in N.H.	Introduced
Endangered in U.S.	Threatened in U.S.

New Hampshire Species		Other North American Species
Monarch Mourning Cloak Painted Lady Red Admiral Viceroy American Lady American Snout Aphrodite Fritillary Appalachian Brown Arctic Fritillary Atlantis Fritillary Baltimore Common Buckeye Common Ringlet Common Wood Nymph Compton Tortoiseshell Eastern Comma Eyed Brown Gray Comma Great Spangled Fritillary Green Comma Harris' Checkerspot Jutta Arctic Little Wood Satyr Meadow Fritillary Melissa Arctic Milbert's Tortoiseshell Northern Crescent Northern Pearly Eye Pearl Crescent Question Mark Red-spotted Purple Regal Fritillary Satyr Comma Silver-bordered Fritillary Silvery Checkerspot Tawny Crescent Variegated Fritillary White Admiral		Zebra Longwing Alberta Arctic Alberta Fritillary Angled Leafwing Anna's Eighty-eight Antillean Daggerwing Astarte Fritillary 'Astyanax' Red-spotted Purple Band-celled Sister Banded Orange Heliconian Banded Patch Banded Peacock Bay Checkerspot Behren's Silverspot Black Checkerspot Black Crescent Blackened Bluewing Black-patched Cracker Blomfild's Beauty Blue-eyed Sailor Bog Fritillary Bordered Patch Brownish Cracker California Crescent California Patch California Sister California Tortoiseshell Callippe Fritillary Canyonland Satyr Carolina Satyr Carol's Fritillary Chestnut Crescent Chestnut Leafwing Chryxus Arctic Colorado Alpine Common Alpine Common Banner Common Mestra Coronis Fritillary Cramer's Eighty-eight Creole Pearly Eye Crimson Patch Cuban Crescent Definite Patch Diana Dingy Fritillary Dingy Purplewing Dotted Checkerspot Dusky Emperor Edith's Checkerspot Edwards' Fritillary Elada Checkerspot Elf Empress Leilia Erato Heliconian European Peacock Field Crescent Florida Leafwing Florida Purplewing Freija Fritillary Frigga Fritillary Fulvia Checkerspot Gabb's Checkerspot Gemmed Satyr Georgia Satyr Gillette's Checkerspot Glaucous Cracker Goatweed Leafwing Gorgone Checkerspot Graphic Crescent Gray Cracker Great Arctic Great Basin Fritillary Great Basin Wood Nymph Guatemalan Cracker Gulf Fritillary Hackberry Emperor Hayden's Ringlet Hoary Comma Hoffmann's Checkerspot Hydaspe Fritillary Isabella's Heliconian Julia Heliconian Karwinski's Beauty Klug's Clearwing Leanira Checkerspot Lorquin's Admiral Macoun's Arctic Magdalena Alpine Malachite Mangrove Buckeye Many-banded Daggerwing Mead's Wood Nymph Mexican Bluewing Mexican Eighty-eight Mexican Fritillary Mexican Silverspot Mimic Mitchell's Satyr Mormon Fritillary Mountain Fritillary Mylitta Crescent Myrtle's Silverspot Nabokov's Satyr Nokomis Fritillary Northern Checkerspot Northwestern Fritillary Oregon Silverspot Orion Pacific Fritillary Painted Crescent Pale Cracker Pale Crescent Pale-spotted Leafwing Pavon Emperor Phaon Crescent Pine Satyr Polixenes Arctic Queen Quino Checkerspot Red Cracker Red Rim Red Satyr Red-bordered Satyr Red-disked Alpine Red-spotted Patch Relict Fritillary Ridings' Satyr Rockslide Checkerspot Rosita Patch Ruddy Daggerwing Rusty-tipped Page Sagebrush Checkerspot Saint Francis' Satyr Scarce Bamboo Page Silver Emperor Small Tortoiseshell Small Wood Nymph Soldier Southern Pearly Eye Spot-celled Sister Taiga Alpine Tailed Cecropian Tawny Emperor Texan Crescent Theona Checkerspot Tiger Mimic-Queen Tiny Checkerspot Tithian Sailor Tropical Buckeye Tropical Leafwing Tulcis Crescent Uhler's Arctic Uncompahgre Fritillary Unsilvered Fritillary Variable Checkerspot Variable Cracker Vidler's Alpine Viola's Wood Satyr Waiter Daggerwing Weidemeyer's Admiral West Coast Lady White Morpho White Peacock White-veined Arctic Wyoming Satyr Yellow-dotted Alpine Zerene Fritillary

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Nymphalidae - brush-footed butterflies

Endangered in N.H.

Threatened in N.H.

Introduced

Endangered in U.S.

Threatened in U.S.