Butterflies of Monteverde

Links

Links to other sites with informations about Costa Rica butterflies (though not necessarily exclusively so). SOme of these sites offer images or information on collections and distribution.

Butterflies of North America
A relatively complete database on North American butterflies. Has enough overlap with the Costa Rican fauna to be quite useful.http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm

Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBIO)
Database of collection records at INBIO. Incomplete, but will have links to species pages (UBI's).
http://www.inbio.ac.cr/bims/
http://darnis.inbio.ac.cr/ubis/

Caterpillars of Guanacaste National Park, Costa Rica.
A huge database of rearing records and images of early stages from D. H. Janzen's Lepidoptera project.
http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu

Caterpillars of La Selva Biological Station
Images and hostplant data on Lepidoptera reared at a lowland Atlantic rain forest site in northeastern Costa Rica.
http://mesa7.mesa.colorado.edu/~ggentry/lsacat/species/spplist.html

A private site in Sweden with taxonomic information for butterflies worldwide.
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/papilionoidea/

Butterflies and Skippers of North America
http://www.nearctica.com/butter/index.htm

Electronic Resources on Lepidoptera
A wealth of links to sites related to every aspect of Lepidoptera
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/lepidoptera.html

Created: 1 May 2001. Updated: 4 May 2001.