Africa
Bernard D’Abrera, 1980. Butterflies of the Afrotropical Region. Lansdowne, Melbourne. 593 pp., plates.

Torben B. Larsen, 1991. The Butterflies of Kenya and their Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 490 pp., 64 plates. ISBN 0-19-854011-6

John G. Williams, 1971. A Field Guide to the Butterflies of Africa. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. 238 pp., 24 plates.

Indo-Australia
I. F. B. Common and D. F. Waterhouse, 1981. Butterflies of Australia, 2nd edition. Angus and Robertson, Sydney. 682 pp.

Bernard D’Abrera, 1977. Butterflies of the Australian Region, 2nd edition. Lansdowne, Melbourne. 415 pp., plates.

W. A. Fleming, 1983. Butterflies of West Malaysia and Singapore, 2nd edition. Longman Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. 148 pp., 92 plates. ISBN 0 582 72010 0

Europe and Asia
Bernard D’Abrera, 1982. Butterflies of the Oriental region. Vol. 1. Hill House, Victoria. ISBN 0-9593639-0-4

A. Maitland Emmet and John Heath, eds., 1989. The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 7, Part 1. Hesperiidae-Nymphalidae - the Butterflies. Harley Books, Colchester. 370 pp. incl. plates. ISBN 0 946589 25 9

W. B. L. Manley and H. G. Allcard, 1970. A Field Guide to the Butterflies and Burnets of Spain. W. W. Classey, Hampton. 192 pp., 40 plates. ISBN 0 900848 39 1

Some organizations of interest:
The Lepidopterists’ Society publishes News and Journal of the Lepidopterists’ Society. Julian P. Donahue, Assistant Secretary, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, 900 Exposition Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90007-4057 <http://www.furman.edu/~snyder/snyder/lep/>

The Xerces Society, devoted to conservation of insects and other invertebrates, publishes Wings: Essays on Invertebrate Conservation (a twice-yearly magazine), the scientific journal Atala, and books on invertebrates and their conservation. 4828 SE Hawthorne Blvd., Portland OR 97215, Phone (503) 232-6639 Fax (503) 233-6794.

The North American Butterfly Association publishes American Butterflies and sponsors the Fourth of July Butterfly Count. NABA, Inc. 4 Delaware Road, Morristown, NJ 07960. Phone (973) 285 0907 Fax (973) 285 0936 <http://www.naba.org>.

To find out where butterflies live, visit our Butterfly Habitats page.