Some photos of the upper surface of butterflies in LYCAENIDAE in Australia (particularly of males, where such umages are available) Blues, Hairstreaks, & Coppers PAPILIONOIDEA

Don Herbison-Evans, (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley

LYCAENIDAE eggs

LYCAENIDAE caterpillars

LYCAENIDAE pupae

LYCAENIDAE females

LYCAENIDAE undersides

Acrodipsas arcana	Acrodipsas aurata	Acrodipsas brisbanensis	Acrodipsas cuprea
Acrodipsas hirtipes	Acrodipsas illidgei	Acrodipsas melania	Acrodipsas mortoni
Acrodipsas myrmecophila	Anthene lycaenoides	Anthene seltuttus	Arhopala eupolis
Arhopala madytus	Arhopala micale	Arhopala philander	Arhopala wildei
Bindahara phocides	Candalides albosericea	Candalides caesia	Candalides heathi
Candalides noelkeri	Candalides urumelia	Candalides xanthospilos	Catochrysops amasea
Catochrysops panormus	Catopyrops ancyra	Catopyrops florinda	Cupido lacturnus
Cyprotides cyprotus	Danis danis	Deudorix democles	Deudorix diovis
Deudorix epijarbas	Deudorix epirus	Deudorix smilis	Eirmocides absimilis
Eirmocides consimilis	Eirmocides helenita	Eirmocides margarita	Erina acasta
Erina delospila	Erina erinus	Erina geminus	Erina hyacinthinus
Erysichton lineatus	Euchrysops cnejus	Famegana nisa	Freyeria putli
Hypochrysops apelles	Hypochrysops apollo	Hypochrysops byzos	Hypochrysops chrysargyrus
Hypochrysops cleon	Hypochrysops cyane	Hypochrysops delicia	Hypochrysops digglesii
Hypochrysops elgneri	Hypochrysops epicurus	Hypochrysops halyaetus	Hypochrysops hippuris
Hypochrysops ignitus	Hypochrysops miskini	Hypochrysops narcissus	Hypochrysops piceata
Hypochrysops polycletus	Hypochrysops pythias	Hypochrysops theon	Hypolycaena danis
Hypolycaena phorbas	Ionolyce helicon	Jalmenus clementi	Jalmenus daemeli
Jalmenus eichhorni	Jalmenus eubulus	Jalmenus evagoras	Jalmenus icilius
Jalmenus ictinus	Jalmenus inous	Jalmenus lithochroa	Jalmenus pseudictinus
Jameela palmyra	Jamides aleuas	Jamides amarauge	Jamides bochus
Jamides cyta	Jamides nemophilus	Jamides phaseli	Lampides boeticus
Leptotes plinius	Liphyra brassolis	Lucia limbaria	Megisba strongyle
Nacaduba berenice	Nacaduba biocellata	Nacaduba cyanea	Nacaduba kurava
Neolucia agricola	Neolucia hobartensis	Neolucia mathewi	Neopithecops lucifer
Ogyris abrota	Ogyris aenone	Ogyris amaryllis	Ogyris barnardi
Ogyris genoveva	Ogyris ianthis	Ogyris idmo	Ogyris iphis
Ogyris olane	Ogyris oroetes	Ogyris otanes	Ogyris subterrestris
Ogyris zosine	Paralucia aurifera	Paralucia pyrodiscus	Paralucia spinifera
Petrelaea tombugensis	Philiris diana	Philiris fulgens	Philiris innotata
Philiris lucina	Philiris nitens	Philiris papuana	Philiris sappheira
Philiris ziska	Pithecops dionisius	Praetaxila segecia	Prosotas dubiosa
Prosotas felderi	Prosotas nora	Pseudalmenus chlorinda	Pseudodipsas cephenes
Pseudodipsas eone	Psychonotis caelius	Rapala varuna	Sahulana scintillata
Strymon bazochii	Theclinesthes albocinctus	Theclinesthes hesperia	Theclinesthes miskini
Theclinesthes onycha	Theclinesthes serpentatus	Theclinesthes sulpitius	Udara cardia

Zizeeria karsandra

Zizina otis

Zizula hylax

previous butterfly family

Australian butterflies

Australian Lepidoptera

Australian imagoes

female LYCAENIDAE

(updated 3 July 2014, 28 May 2026)