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July 2017 UPDATE:
We're extremely excited to announce the publication of an incredible new book by our friends and colleagues Tom Turner and Vaughan Turland:
DISCOVERING JAMAICAN BUTTERFLIES AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS AROUND THE CARIBBEAN -
A comprehensive study of Jamaican butterflies, and the need for conservation of those species facing loss of critical habitat.

This book will be a must-have reference for the library of any natural history museum, university with a programme in tropical ecology, dedicated Caribbean naturalist, or budding lepidopterist.

All 136 butterflies known from Jamaica are described in technical detail, along with more than 1000 photographs and figures depicting their life stages, their natural habitats, their island distributions and much more.   Tom and Vaughan's combined 70+ years of field observations have resulted in a tour de force of all t'ings butterfly for Jamaica. We congratulate them on this tremendous contribution!

The website for this book gives a glimpse of the beautiful and unique butterflies which call Jamaica home.

Tom and Vaughan were able to resolve the several spurious / erroneous records reported in Brown & Heineman (1972) and in the subsequent literature based on this seminal natural history reference. They provide details of their corrections in Chapter 5: The Jamaican Butterflies . We have updated our checklist to include these corrections and to add the several new species which have been discovered over the past few decades.

In our checklist, we have a few links to photos on our old webpages...but you'll be much happier with Tom & Vaughan's new book!

You also can see photos of speciemens at butterfliesofamerica.com

Please let us know if you know of any updates.

Last updated 22 July 2017.

Garraway, E. and A. Bailey. 2005. Butterflies of Jamaica. Macmillan Publishers, Ltd, Oxford, UK.

Johnson, K. & D.S. Smith, 1993. A remarkable new butterfly species from Jamaica (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae), with notes on Jamaican endemics and their sister species. Reports of the Museum of Natural History, University of Wisconsin (Stevens Point) 24: 1-14.

Lewis, Delano St.A. 2009. "Lime Swallowtail, Chequered Swallowtail, Citrus Swallowtail Papilio demoleus Linnaeus (Insecta: Lipidoptera: Papilionidae)" (PDF). University of Florida (IFAS Extension). Retrieved 26 November 2010.

Lewis, D. St.A. 2010. Phylogeny and revision of the genus Heraclides Hübner, 1819 (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Papilioninae: Papilionini). University of Florida, Doctoral disseration.

Lewis D.S., F.A.H. Sperling, S. Nakahara, A.M. Cotton, A.Y. Kawahara and F.L. Condamine. 2014. Role of Caribbean Islands in the diversification and biogeography of Neotropical Heraclides swallowtails. Cladistics. doi: 10.1111/cla.12092

Murphy, C.P., D.L. Whyte, and E. Garraway. 2017. Scientific note: new records of Marpesa chiron (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae) from Jamaica. Trop. Lepid. Research 27: 19-20.

Shiraiwa, K., Q. Cong and N.V. Grishin. 2014. A new Heraclides swallowtail (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) from North America is recognized by the pattern on its neck. ZooKeys 468: 85-135. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.468.8565

Turland, V.A., A.D. Warren, and D.S. Lewis. 2012. A new genus and species of Moncini from Jamaica, West Indies (Lepidoptera, Hesperiidae, Hesperiinae). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 22:66-73.

Turner, T. and V. Turland. 2017. Discovering Jamaican butterflies and their relationships around the Caribbean. Caribbean Wildlife Publications, LLC., Safety Harbour, Florida, USA. Purchase on amazon.com

Van-Wright, R.I.; Ackery, P.R.; Turner, T. (1992). Anetia Jaegeri, Danaus Cleophile and Lycoriea cleobaea from Jamaica (Nymphalide: Danaine). Journal of the Lepidopterist's Society. 46 (4): 273–279.

Wahlberg, N., C.W. Wheat and C. Peña. 2013. Timing and Patterns in the Taxonomic Diversification of Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths). PLoS ONE 8(11): e80875. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080875

Warren, A.D., K.J. Davis, E.M. Stangeland, J.P. Pelham, and N.V. Grishin. 2015. Illustrated Lists of American Butterflies (North and South America) 28-VIII-2015. Website accessed: 10-August-2016.

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