Butterfly families

thumb|Common Jezebel (Delias eucharis) thumb|Eastern greenish black-tip (Euchloe penia)

thumb|Peacock (Aglais io) thumb|Crimson-spotted forester (Euphaedra themis) thumb|Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) thumb|Dark blue tiger (Tirumala septentrionis) thumb|Small pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria selene) thumb|thumbtime=8|Phyciodes|Crescent butterfly [[nectaring on yellow ironweed]]

family of insects

thumb|Brown hairstreak (Thecla betulae) thumb|Loxura atymnus

family of butterflies commonly called skippers

thumb|Ariconias glaphyra in the Pantanal, [[Brazil]] thumb|Duke of Burgundy (Hamearis lucina) thumb|White-rayed metalmark (Hades noctula) Riodinidae is the family of metalmark butterflies. The common name "metalmarks" refers to the small, metallic-looking spots commonly found on their wings. The 1,532 species are placed in 146 genera. Although mostly Neotropical in distribution, the family is also represented both in the Nearctic, Palearctic, Australasian (Dicallaneura), Afrotropic (Afriodinia, Saribia), and Indomalayan realms.

Hedylidae, the "American moth-butterflies", is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera, formerly representing the superfamily Hedyloidea. They have traditionally been viewed as an extant sister group of the butterfly superfamily Papilionoidea, but a 2014 phylogenetic analysis has suggested Hedylidae is a subgroup of Papilionoidea, and not a sister group, and are more accurately referred to as butterflies rather than moths. They are represented by a single Neotropical genus, Macrosoma, with 35 currently recognized species.