Vagrant, Extinct and Exotic Species
Extinct
- Arran Brown – Erebia ligea
- Black-veined White – Aporia crataegi
- Mazarine Blue – Polyommatus semiargus (now vagrant only)
- Large Copper – Lycaena dispar (Great Britain subspecies extinct; continental subspecies introduced now also extinct)
- Large Tortoiseshell – Nymphalis polychloros (now vagrant only, although sightings in southern England since 2007 suggest recolonisation may be occurring)
- Almond-eyed Ringlet – Erebia alberganus
Vagrants
- Pale Clouded Yellow – Colias hyale
- Berger's Clouded Yellow – Colias sareptensis
- Bath White – Pontia daplidice
- Dappled White – Euchloe simplonia
- Long-tailed Blue – Lampides boeticus
- Lang's Short-tailed Blue – Leptotes pirithous
- Scarce Swallowtail – Iphiclides podalirius
- Short-tailed Blue – Cupido argiades
- Geranium Bronze – Cacyreus marshalli (imported on geraniums)
- Camberwell Beauty – Nymphalis antiopa
- Map – Araschnia levana (formerly introduced and bred)
- Queen of Spain Fritillary – Issoria lathonia
- Monarch – Danaus plexippus
- Plain Tiger – Danaus chrysippus (single record from Cambridgeshire, April 2011, coincident with influx of vagrant Odonata)
- Apollo – Parnassius apollo
- American Painted Lady – Vanessa virginiensis
Exotics
Species included in the Great Britain Lepidoptera numbering system, but believed never to have occurred naturally in a wild state
- Fiery Skipper – Hylephila phyleus
- Mallow Skipper – Carcharodus alceae
- Oberthür's Grizzled Skipper – Pyrgus armoricanus
- Small Apollo – Parnassius phoebus
- Spanish Festoon – Zerynthia rumina
- Southern Festoon – Zerynthia polyxena
- Tiger Swallowtail – Papilio glaucus
- Moorland Clouded Yellow – Colias palaeno
- Cleopatra – Gonepteryx cleopatra
- Slate Flash – Rapala schistacea
- Scarce Copper – Lycaena virgaureae
- Sooty Copper – Lycaena tityrus
- Purple-shot Copper – Lycaena alciphron
- Purple-edged Copper – Lycaena hippothoe
- Turquoise Blue – Plebicula dorylas
- Green-underside Blue – Glaucopsyche alexis
- Julia – Dryas julia
- Albin's Hampstead Eye (Meadow Argus) – Junonia villida
- Blue Pansy – Junonia oenone
- Zebra – Colobura dirce
- Small Blown Shoemaker (Orange Mapwing) – Hypanartia lethe
- Indian Red Admiral – Vanessa indica
- Scarce Tortoiseshell – Nymphalis xanthomelas
- Weaver's Fritillary – Boloria dia
- Aphrodite Fritillary – Argynnis aphrodite
- Niobe Fritillary – Argynnis niobe
- Cardinal or Mediterranean Fritillary – Argynnis pandora
- Spotted Fritillary – Melitaea didyma
- Large Wall – Lasiommata maera
- Woodland Grayling – Hipparchia fagi
- Hermit – Chazara briseis
- False Grayling – Arethusana arethusa
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