This is a list of official U.S. state butterflies:
| State | State butterfly | Binomial nomenclature |
Image | Year designated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | Monarch Butterfly (State insect) |
Danaus plexippus | 1989 | |
| Arizona | Two-tailed Swallowtail | Papilio multicaudata | 2001 | |
| Arkansas | Diana Fritillary Butterfly | Speyeria diana | 2007 | |
| California | California Dogface Butterfly | Colias eurydice | 1972 | |
| Colorado | Colorado Hairstreak Butterfly | Hypaurotis crysalus | 1996 | |
| Delaware | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Papilio glaucus | 1999 | |
| Florida | Zebra Longwing | Heliconius charithonia | 1996 | |
| Georgia | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Papilio glaucus | 1988 | |
| Hawaii | Kamehameha butterfly (State insect) |
Vanessa tameamea | 2009 | |
| Idaho | Monarch Butterfly (State insect) |
Danaus plexippus | 1992 | |
| Illinois | Monarch Butterfly (State insect) |
Danaus plexippus | 1975 | |
| Kentucky | Viceroy Butterfly | Limenitis archippus | 1990 | |
| Maryland | Baltimore Checkerspot Butterfly (State insect) |
Euphydryas phaeton | 1973 | |
| Minnesota | Monarch Butterfly (State insect) |
Danaus plexippus | 2000 | |
| Mississippi | Spicebush Swallowtail | Papilio troilus | 1991 | |
| Montana | Mourning Cloak Butterfly | Nymphalis antiopa | ||
| New Hampshire | Karner Blue Butterfly | Lycaeides melissa ssp. samuelis | 1992 | |
| New Mexico | Sandia Hairstreak Butterfly | Callophrys mcfarlandi | 2003 | |
| New York | Red Spotted Purple or White Admiral Butterfly | Limenitis arthemis | 2008 | |
| North Carolina | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Papilio glaucus | 2012 | |
| Oklahoma | Black Swallowtail | Papilio polyxenes | 1996 | |
| Oregon | Oregon Swallowtail (State insect) |
Papilio oregonius | ||
| South Carolina | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Papilio glaucus | 1994 | |
| Tennessee | Zebra Swallowtail | Eurytides marcellus | 1995 | |
| Texas | Monarch Butterfly (State insect) |
Danaus plexippus | 1995 | |
| Vermont | Monarch Butterfly (State butterfly) |
Danaus plexippus | 1987 | |
| Virginia | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Papilio glaucus | ||
| West Virginia | Monarch Butterfly (State butterfly) |
Danaus plexippus | 1995 | |
| Wyoming | Sheridan's Hairstreak | Callophrys sheridanii | 2009 |
- This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, state and/or butterflies:
“My list of things I never pictured myself saying when I pictured myself as a parent has grown over the years.”
—Polly Berrien Berends (20th century)
“Do your children view themselves as successes or failures? Are they being encouraged to be inquisitive or passive? Are they afraid to challenge authority and to question assumptions? Do they feel comfortable adapting to change? Are they easily discouraged if they cannot arrive at a solution to a problem? The answers to those questions will give you a better appraisal of their education than any list of courses, grades, or test scores.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)
“The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it.—Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)