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Adult female Diana Fritillary (Speyeria diana) below, photographed in Dog Cove, White County, Tennessee; photo credit: Stephen J. Stedman.(21 August 2019).

A fairly complete list of the butterflies of Tennessee (140 species) may be viewed below (Table 1).

    Maps displaying Tennessee counties in which 139 of the 140 species that have been documented at the Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA--http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/) website may be viewed via the link below (Note: the maps were created by Douglas R. Bruce who advises using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome to access them and who is about two years behind in updating them; many thanks go to the staff at BAMONA for allowing this use of data from that website):

• http://www.tnleps.org/maps/

    Information about the butterflies of Putnam County, Tennessee (94 species), may be viewed via the links below:

• Butterflies of Putnam County, Tennessee (list of species)
• Butterflies of Putnam County, Tennessee (photos)

   Information about the butterflies of Dog Cove, a unit of Fall Creek Falls State Park located In White County, Tennessee, devoted to conservation of birds and butterflies, may be accessed via the link below:

• Butterflies of Dog Cove

Table 1. Butterflies of Tennessee listed at the Butterflies and Moths of North America (BAMONA) website; common names generally follow the NABA Checklist (2001), while scientific names and order follow Opler and Warren (2002) and the BAMONA website.

Literature Cited

North American Butterfly Association. 2001.  The North American Butterfly Association (NABA) Checklist
        & English Names of North American Butterflies. 2nd ed. North American Butterfly Association,
        Morristown, NJ.

Opler, P. A., & A. D. Warren. 2002. Butterflies of North America. 2. Scientific Names List for North American
        Butterfly Species North of Mexico. Contributions of the C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, 
        Colorado State University. 79pp.

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