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Hi all,

Can anyone recommend a website (or book) for butterflies of Brazil (or South America if not)?

Thanks

Lee

You might like to contact Adrian Hoskins through his website (eg: http://www.learnaboutbutterflies.com/Am ... thumbs.htm) or via UK Butterflies (memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=54). I think he is especially interested in the tropics and rainforests.

Brazil is a seriously butterfly-dense region! Bernard d'Abrera's Butterflies of South America (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Butterflies-Sou ... 0959363920) illustrates 700 species (for South America as a whole) and is still only recommended as a guide to family or genus. His more comprehensive series on the butterflies of the world has several volumes for the Neotropical region, retailing at over £200 each.

Very much more affordable is his World Butterflies (http://www.amazon.co.uk/World-Butterfli ... 927&sr=1-1), with over 6400 insects figured (some species represented more than once) categorised into regions. Plates 111-150 cover the Neotropical region. It's definitely not a field guide, but let's you get most butterflies down to at least family and often genus, after which you can do some web searching.

If you're planning to visit Brazil, I would try to get some local information for the smaller region you are visiting. The number of species is presumably much smaller nearer urban regions.

Guy

This site might help too:

http://www.neotropicalbutterflies.com/index.html

Guy

Hi Guy,

Many thanks for your hugely detailed reply!

Cheers

Lee