Some New Zealand butterflies and day-flying moths
Common Blue or Pepe aouri
Zizina labradus
Common Copper or Pepe parariki
Lycaena salustius
Black Mountain Ringlet
Percnodaimon merula
Common Tussock Argyrophenga
antipodum
Long-tailed Blue or Pepe aouri
Lampides boeticusGlade Copper
Lycaena feredayiButler’s Ringlet Erebiola butleri
Tussock Butterfly Argyrophenga antipodum
Southern Blue or Pepe Aouri Zizina oxleyi
Boulder Copper Lycaena boldenarum
Forest Ringlet or Helms’ Ringlet
Dodonidia helmsiiJanita’s Tussock
Argyrophenga janitae
Monarch or Kahuku or Pepepe ariki
Danaus plexippus
Rauparaha’s Copper Lycaena rauparaha
White Butterfly or Purerehua ma
Pieris rapae
Red Admiral or Kahukura or Pepekura
Bassaris gonerilla
Magpie Moth or Mokarakara
Nyctemera annulataCinnabar Moth Tyria jacobaeae
Yellow Admiral or Kahukowhai Bassaris itea
© Monarch Butterfly NZ Trust, February 2012 Monarch Butterfly New Zealand Trust, PO Box 44100, Pt Chevalier, Auckland 1246