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LEPIDOPTERA SPECIES OF GREAT BRITAIN
The United Kingdom has a total of 59 resident species of Butterfly, additionally there are a number of either regular or irregular migrants; this website also describes these and othes that are now extinct in Britain.
There are six families of Butterflies in the UK, including several sub-families.
Compared to the relatively small amount of Butterflies found here in the United Kingdom, there are in fact over 2,400 species of moths that have been recorded on our shores.
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