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Sources / Further Reading
Pheres Blue
https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/t/Icaricia_icarioides_pheres_a.htm
Strobheen’s parnasia
https://bioaccumulation.wordpress.com/tag/parnassius-clodius-strohbeeni/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppk17
Atossa fritillary
https://www.calacademy.org/blogs/project-lab/extinction-is-forever-gone-but-not-forgotten-ii
https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/speyeria_adiaste_atossa.htm
FLORIDA ZESTOS SKIPPER
http://www.miamiblue.org/butterflies/zestos_skipper.htm
https://www.boerenlandvogels.nl/content/two-butterfly-species-native-florida-were-declared-extinct
COLIAS PONTENI
https://www.butterfliesofamerica.com/L/colias_ponteni_types.htm
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/11022291.pdf
https://www.sef.nu/download/entomologisk_tidskrift/ET%201971/ET-1971-164-172w.pdf
EUPLOEA ELEUTHO
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/b172p30-38.pdf
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-1997-09-19/pdf/97-24806.pdf
https://guaminsects.myspecies.info/taxonomy/euploea-eleutho
https://www.uog.edu/_resources/files/wptrc/ButterfliesOfMicronesia.pdf
VAGRANS EGESTINA
https://ecosphere-documents-production-public.s3.amazonaws.com/sams/public_docs/species_nonpublish/3124.pdf
https://bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-the-lepidopterists-society/volume-72/issue-3/lepi.v72i3.a7/The-Conservation-Status-of-Two-Endangered-Mariana-Butterflies-Hypolimnas-octocula/10.18473/lepi.v72i3.a7.short
http://deadasthedodo.com/tag/vagrans-egestina/
NEPTIS GUAMENSIS
https://archive.org/details/ser8annalsmagazi18londuoft/page/483/mode/1up?view=theater
http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/pubs-online/pdf/b172p30-38.pdf
https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/lepidoptera-butterflies-moths/neptis-guamensis
OROBASSOLIS LATUSORIS
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232607397_A_new_Orobrassolis_butterfly_Nymphalidae_Brassolini_A_casualty_of_habitat_destruction
http://deadasthedodo.com/2014/04/18/orobrassolis-latusoris-penz-simonsen/
BATTUS POLYDAMAS ANTIQUUS
https://www.jstor.org/stable/6568
EUPLOEA ROGERI
https://islandbiodiversity.com/Phelsuma%2017-8.pdf
PHALANTA PHILBERTI
https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofuni181895unit/page/266/mode/1up?view=theater
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/32799#page/315/mode/1up
LIBYTHEA CINYRAS
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/101/2018/10/Kawahara_2009.pdf
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03FF87C7FFE5434376E7FA9FFC1BD542
https://recentlyextinctspecies.com/lepidoptera-butterflies-moths/libythea-cinyras
EUPLOEA DESJARDENSII
https://archive.org/details/proceedingsofuni181895unit/page/269/mode/1up?view=theater
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/SeitzFaunaAfricanaXIIITaf25.JPG
L DISPAR DISPAR
Dutch alcon blue
PARNASSIUS APOLLO ANCILE
https://archive.org/details/bulletinofbritis29briti/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater
http://www.globalsciencebooks.info/Online/GSBOnline/images/0706/FEC_1(1)/FEC_1(1)56-79o.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Schematic-drawing-of-actual-Parnassius-apollo-distribution-in-Europe-Data-compiled-from_fig3_287495323
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10841-024-00602-2
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378839751_Endangered_Butterflies_and_their_Conservation_the_Decline_of_Parnassius_apollo_and_Phengaris_spp_in_Europe_and_Slovenia
Deloneura immaculata
https://www.iziko.org.za/news/iconic-specimens-iziko-entomology-collection-mbashe-river-buff/
Graphium aurivillusi
https://archive.org/details/annalesdelasoci40189697soci/page/499/mode/1up?view=theater
http://deadasthedodo.com/tag/graphium-aurivilliusi/
Paradise birdwing
https://www.sciencephoto.com/media/150977/view/birdwing-butterfly-ornithoptera-paradisea
https://eol.org/pt-BR/pages/130509/articles