Science Stories > Butterflies> New Zealand butterfly families
Nymphalidae
Red admiral
Blue moon
Yellow admiral
Lesser wanderer
(blown here, not known to breed here)
(blown here, not known to breed here)
Janita’s tussock
Harris’s tussock
Monarch
Painted lady
Black mountain ringlet
Butler’s ringlet
(blown here, breeds occasionally)
Common tussock
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Forest ringlet
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Lycaenidae
Common blue
Common copper
Southern blue
Boulder copper
Glade copper
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Long-tailed blue
Rauparaha’s copper
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Pieridae
The sole representative of the Pieridae family is the introduced white butterfly.
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Papilionidae
Riodinidae
These butterflies are not represented in New Zealand.
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Lycaenidae family
Nymphalidae family
Tony Wills
Kath Widdowson
Jon Sullivan
Robert Arter-Williamson
Jerome Albre
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Red and yellow admiral
Monarch
Black mountain ringlet
Lesser wanderer
Butler’s ringlet
Janita’s tussock
Harris’s tussock
Common tussock
Forest ringlet
Printed lady
Blue moon
Robert Arter-Williamson Common blue
Southern blue
Long-tailed blue
Norm Twigge
Common copper
Mike Lusk
Boulder copper
Tony Wills
Glade copper
Jerome Albre
Rauparaha’s copper
Pieridae family
Christopher Zaborsky
White cabbage butterfly