Important note about citing this web page.

This project page (NHEB), and all specific species pages included here are the exclusive property of the Yanayacu Natural History Research Group. If you wish to cite the project page as a whole, including species pages, please do so as follows:

Greeney, H. F. (2006) Natural History of Ecuador's Butterflies. http://depts.washington.edu/nhrg/nheb/. (Date you accessed the page)

If you would like to see a list of species for which I have created specific pages for, please see the list of species descriptions. If you would like to browse species by specific localities please visit our list of sites for which we have made pages.

PLEASE NOTE: This page is JUST beginning development. Please bear with me for a while.

-Harold Greeney April 2006

 

Natural History of Ecuador's Butterflies

A project of the Yanayacu Natural History Research Group
Originally, the majority of my observations on Ecuadorian butterflies were centered around the Yanayacu Biological Station. Subsequently, with the addition of many other researchers visiting the area, we began development of a long term research project examining the interactions of caterpillars, parasitoids, and their hostplants (Caterpillars and Parasitoids of the Eastern Andes). This project is headed by Lee Dyer and our continually developed website for rearing results from the Yanayacu area can be found at the CAPEA website.

This website is, of course, continually under development. I wish to use it as a means of disseminating information and images for which there are few or no traditional methods of doing so. I have uploaded pages for various species, relatively at random and simply chosen because they were ones I found particularly interesting or had time to make a page for. For many of the species I have avoided placing a specific name on them and refer to them something like AcutalGenus #1. This is because I am not a taxonomist and, many groups such as Memphis are in dire need of taxanomic revisions. I welcome comments and corrections from anyone who is able to help me with specific identifications.

For many species there may be other information out there in the web. For these I have directly linked species pages to the information of others. In particular, many species which occur on the eastern slopes of the Ecuadorian Andes are also treated in the CAPEA website or, for species from other areas of Ecuador, at Caterpillars and Parasitoids of a Costa Rican Tropical Wet Forest or at the caterpillar database for Area de Conservacion Guanacaste in Costa Rica.

 

WAYS TO USE AND SURF THIS SITE:

1) If you wish to browse through the species we have pages made for, visit our species list, which includes butterflies from around Ecuador.

2) If you wish to view species from a particular site in Ecuador, visit our site list, which will link you to a list of species from that area for which we have pages made for.