North American Butterfly Association

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Checklist of North American Butterflies-2nd Edition

The second edition of the checklist includes all 722 species of butterflies that have been recorded in North American, north of Mexico and in Hawaii, giving both English and scientific names. Space is provided for checkmarks, date and locality information for each species. Also included is an introductory section, explaining the formation, deliberations, and policies of the NABA Names Committee, and a commentary section, in which the reasons why particular names were chosen are explained and the votes of the committee are given. A copy of the checklist may be ordered through ButterflyBuzz.

An electronic copy of just the names including typo corrections to the checklist is available at this web site. A PDF file of the introduction, explantion of the formation, deliberations and policies of the NABA Names Committee and a commentary section about reasoning behind some of the names is also available on this web site.