Regional Butterfly and Moth Information
Top 20 Commonly Reported Butterflies and Moths of Puerto Rico
These are the most commonly reported butterflies and moths in Puerto Rico. If you do not see the species you found, look at all photographs submitted in Puerto Rico, or visit the Puerto Rico page to see recently submitted sightings.
Puerto Rican Calisto
Calisto nubila
Tetrio sphinx
Pseudosphinx tetrio
Drury's Broken-dash
Wallengrenia drury
Gulf Fritillary
Agraulis vanillae
Vitellius Skipper
Choranthus vitellius
Black Witch
Ascalapha odorata
Great Southern White
Ascia monuste
Puerto Rican Checkerspot
Atlantea tulita
Red Rim
Biblis hyperia
Tropical Checkered-Skipper
Burnsius oileus
Mexican Fritillary
Euptoieta hegesia
Tropical Buckeye
Junonia evarete
Malachite
Siproeta stelenes
White Peacock
Anartia jatrophae
Antillean Crescent
Antillea pelops
Statira Sulphur
Aphrissa statira
Dirce Beauty
Colobura dirce
Three-spotted Skipper
Cymaenes tripunctus
Fulvous Hairstreak
Electrostrymon angelia
We can help identify your butterfly or moth!
If you know the date and location where the photograph was taken, we can help. It's simple!
A coordinator will review your submission, and you will get an email with the identification.
We will store your submitted data. Your submission will contribute to our species profiles, checklists, and database. You can track all your submissions and create a personal species list.
Identifying Caterpillars
Do you have a photograph of a caterpillar? If so, when you submit your photograph, please provide us with host plant information if possible. Consider raising it to the adult stage before submitting photographs.
Surprisingly, most of the larval stages of butterflies and moths are simply unknown, and caterpillar photographs can be very difficult to identify. It may take some time for a coordinator to identify your caterpillar.
Please donate!
We depend on donations to keep Butterflies and Moths of North America freely available. We want to express our gratitude to all who showed their support by making a contribution this year. You can donate to support this project at any time.
Advertise with us!
Do you have a product or service that you think would interest BAMONA users? If you would like to advertise on this website, contact us by email, or use the contact form and select the "Advertising" category.