LIST OF BUTTERFLIES OF EGYPT - Encyclopedia Information

This is a list of butterflies of Egypt. About 63 species are known from Egypt, two of which are endemic.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Papilionidae

^ ^a ^b El-Gabbas, Ahmed; Gilbert, Francis (2016). "The Desert Beauty Calopieris eulimene: a butterfly new to Egypt (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Zoology in the Middle East. 62 (3): 279–281. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202984. ISSN 0939-7140.
^ Gilbert, Francis; Zalat, Samy (2008). Butterflies of Egypt: Atlas, Red Data Listing & Conservation (PDF). Cairo: Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency.
^ Larsen, Torben (1990). The Butterflies of Egypt. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757149.

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Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies and other territories	Canary Islands / Ceuta / Melilla (Spain) Madeira (Portugal) Mayotte / Réunion (France) Saint Helena / Ascension Island / Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

References

^ ^a ^b El-Gabbas, Ahmed; Gilbert, Francis (2016). "The Desert Beauty Calopieris eulimene: a butterfly new to Egypt (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Zoology in the Middle East. 62 (3): 279–281. doi: 10.1080/09397140.2016.1202984. ISSN 0939-7140.
^ Gilbert, Francis; Zalat, Samy (2008). Butterflies of Egypt: Atlas, Red Data Listing & Conservation (PDF). Cairo: Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency.
^ Larsen, Torben (1990). The Butterflies of Egypt. Apollo Books. ISBN 978-8788757149.