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        Books and Field Guides

Now Available! A Swift Guide to the Butterflies  of Mexico and Central America, by Jeffrey  Glassberg. First complete field guide to the butterflies of Mexico or to any Central or South American country. Illustrates, with 3250 full color photographs, almost all of the more than 1700 kinds of butterflies found in Mexico plus many species found only in other parts of Central America. Inlcudes range maps, caterpillar foodplants, and embedded text and arrows in the photographs detailing how to identify these butterflies. Available at www.sunstreakbooks.com

 

Butterflies of Southern Amazonia Garwood & Lehman Carter & Carter Now Available! at www.neotropicalbutterflies.com

Butterflies of Northeastern Mexico: Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Tamaulipas ~A Photographic Checklist~ Outstanding resource for images of butterflies south of the US border all the way through South America.  You can purchase the second edition of the book by Kim Garwood and Richard Lehman via their web site,  Neotropical Butterflies, A Photo Gallery. Includes excellent information and maps of favorite butterfly watching sites in Northeastern Mexico. Kim and Richard partnered with Conabio and the State Government of Nuevo Leon to produce this must have guide for anyone considering or planning to butterfly Mexico/Latin America.

 

• Mexico Butterfly Field Guides

• Latin American Butterfly Field Guides - Compiled by Mike Quinn

 

Mexico Article

• Mexican Butterfly Diversity - Manuel A. Balcázar-Lara

 

        Lists

            Within-State

• Butterflies of the Tuxtlas Mts., Veracruz, Mexico, Revisited (PDF) - Raguso& Llorente-Bousquets

• Edinburg WBC NE Mexico Butterfly Trip March 21-23, 2003 - by Mike Overton

• Northeastern Mexico: Birds and Butterflies - Jim Brock - WINGS Tours - Sept. 2001 & 2002 

            Whole State

• Chihuahua -- Coahuila -- Nuevo Leon -- Tamaulipas - USGS (State lists limited to species also recorded in USA)

            Multi-State

• Butterflies of Northern Mexico - USGS (Limited to species also recorded in USA)

• Checklist and English Names of Mexican Butterflies - North American Butterfly Association

• Reporte del Catálogo de Hesperioidea (PDF) - Andy Warren

• Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

• Listado Internacional de la Mariposas Mexicanas
         
  

Locations

• Parque Ecologico Chipinque - Monterrey, Nuevo Leon

• La Estanzuela Parque Natural - Monterrey, Nuevo Leon -

• Mexican Ecological Park Harbors Many Exotic Butterflies - John & Gloria Tveten

• Maps of Mexico

        Monarchs

• "A New Vision for the Monarch Butterfly" - by President Vicente Fox

• Monarch Tags Recovered at El Rosario Monarch Sanctuary, 2004 - Gil Quintanilla

• Monarch Links - Texas Monarch Watch

Photographs

• Butterflies of America - Excellent and comprehensive online resource devoted to American butterflies that will include information on the geographic distribution, geographic variation, taxonomy, systematics, identification, ecology (including larval foodplants and immature biology) and bibliography for all butterfly taxa in the region, including all species, subspecies and undescribed geographic segregates.

• ZipcodeZoo.com , the BayScience Foundation and David Stang . Try their Butterfly Finder
  to help identify a butterfly you've seen.

• Neotropical Butterflies, A Photo Galler

• Interactive Listing of Mexican Butterflies

• Butterflying Peru - Gil Quintanilla 's photos from trip to the Amazon Region...Chanchamayo: San Ramon,
  Pampa Hermosa, Pozuzo-Oxapampa, Parque Nacional Yanachaga-Chemillen, Mariposa, Satipo...

• Butterflies of Northern Peru - Jeff Pippen's 90+ species of neotropical butterflies of Northern Peru
  grouped by subfamily and family

• Butterflies of Texas and NE Mexico - Mike Stangeland and Kim Davis

• Mexican Butterflies - Nelson Dobbs

 

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