# List of butterflies of the United Arab Emirates

This is a list of butterflies of the United Arab Emirates. Over 50 species are known from the United Arab Emirates.

## Papilionidae
### Papilioninae
#### Papilionini

* Papilio machaon muetingi Seyer, 1976
* Papilio demoleus Linnaeus, 1758

## Pieridae - whites and yellows
### Subfamily-Pierinae

* Belenois aurota (Fabricius, 1793) caper white
* Colotis amata (Cramer, 1775) small salmon Arab
* Colotis danae (Klug, 1829) scarlet tip
* Colitis fausta (Olivier, 1804) salmon Arab
* Colitis liagore (Klug, 1829) desert orange tip
* Colitis phisadia (Godart, 1819) blue spotted Arab
* Euchloe transcaspica amseli (Gross & Ebert 1975) white desert black tip
* Euchloe belemia (Esper, 1800) green striped white
* Pieris krueperi (de Nicéville, 1883) Krueper's small white
* Pieris rapae (Le Cerf, 1913) small cabbage white
* Pontia glauconome (Klug, 1829) desert white

### Sub-family Coliadinae - yellows and sulphurs

* Catopsilia florella (Fabricius, 1775) African emigrant
* Catopsilia pyranthe (Linnaeus, 1758) mottled emigrant
* Colias croceus (Geoffroy, 1785) clouded yellow
* Eurema hecabe solifera (Butler, 1875) common grass yellow

## Nymphalidae - brush-footed butterflies
### Sub-family Danainae

* Danaus chrysippus (Linnaeus, 1758) plain tiger

### Sub-family Nymphalinae

* Hypolimnas misippus (Linnaeus, 1764) diadem or danaid eggfly
* Junonia hierta Trimen, 1870 yellow pansy
* Junonia orithya Lang, 1884 blue pansy
* Vanessa cardui (Linnaeus, 1758) painted lady

### Sub-family Satyrinae - browns

* Hipparchia parisatis (Kollar, 1849) white-edged rock brown
* Ypthima asterope (Klug, 1832) common three-ring
* Ypthima bolanica Marshall, 1882 Baluchi ringlet

## Lycaenidae - blues
### Sub-family Theclinae

* Apharitis acamas hypargyros (Butler, 1886) tawny silverline
* Apharitis myrmecophila (Dumont, 1922) desert silverline
* Deudorix livia barnetti Libert, 2005 pomegranate playboy
* Myrina silenus Stoneham, 1937 fig blue

### Sub-family Polyommatinae

* Agrodiaetus loewii (Walker, 1870) Loew's blue
* Anthene amarah amarah (Guerin, 1847) leaden ciliate blue
* Azanus jesous (Guerin, 1847) African babul blue
* Azanus ubaldus (Stoll, [1782]) desert babul blue
* Brephidium exilis (Boisduval, 1852) western pygmy blue
* Chilades galba (Lederer, 1855) Lederer's Cupid
* Chilades pandava (Horsfield, 1829) cycad Cupid or plains Cupid
* Chilades parrhasius (Fabricius, 1793) small Cupid
* Chilades trochylus (Freyer, 1845) grass jewel
* Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1793) gram blue
* Lampides boeticus (Linnaeus, 1767) pea blue
* Pseudophilotes vicrama (Christoph, 1887) eastern baton blue
* Tarucus balkanicus (Freyer, 1844) Balkan Pierrot
* Tarucus rosaceus (Austat, 1885) Mediterranean Pierrot
* Zizeeria karsandra (Moore, 1865) Asian grass blue
* Zizula hylax (Fabricius, 1775) tiny grass blue

## Hesperiidae-skippers
### Sub-family Coeliadinae

* Pyrrhiades anchises (Butler, 1861) giant skipper

### Sub-family Pyriginae – grizzled skippers

* Gomalia elma (Trimen, 1862) African mallow skipper / marbled skipperGomalia elma in the United Arab Emirates
* Spialia colotes (de Jong, 1978) Transvaal grizzled skipper
* Spialia doris (Walker, 1870) desert grizzled skipper
* Spialia mafa (Trimen, 1870) Mafa grizzled skipper
* Spialia mangana (Rebel, 1899) Arabian grizzled skipper
* Spialia zebra (Higgins, 1924) zebra grizzled skipper

### Sub-family Hesperiinae – grass skippers

* Gegenes nostrodamus (Fabricius, 1793) Mediterranean skipper
* Gegenes pumilio (Hoffmannsegg, 1804) pygmy skipper
* Pelopidas mathias (Fabricius, 1798) black-branded swift
* Pelopidas thrax (Hübner, 1821) white-branded swift