Alphabetical List of Butterflies in New Jersey

  1. Aaron's Skipper

  2. American Copper

  3. American Lady

  4. American Snout

  5. Aphrodite Fritillary

  6. Appalachian Azure

  7. Appalachian Brown

  8. Arogos Skipper

  9. Banded Hairstreak

  10. Baltimore Checkerspot

  11. Black Dash

  12. Black Swallowtail

  13. Bog Copper

  14. Brazilian Skipper

  15. Broad-winged Skipper

  16. Bronze Copper

  17. Brown Elfin

  18. Cabbage White

  19. Checkered White

  20. Clouded Skipper

  21. Clouded Sulphur

  22. Cloudless Sulphur

  23. Cobweb Skipper

  24. Common Buckeye

  25. Common Checkered-Skipper

  26. Common Ringlet

  27. Common Roadside-Skipper

  28. Common Sootywing

  29. Common Wood-Nymph

  30. Compton Tortoiseshell

  31. Coral Hairstreak

  32. Crossline Skipper

  33. Dainty Sulphur

  34. Delaware Skipper

  35. Dion Skipper

  36. Dotted Skipper

  37. Dreamy Duskywing

  38. Dun Skipper

  39. Dusted Skipper

  40. Eastern Comma

  41. Eastern Pine Elfin

  42. Eastern Tailed-Blue

  43. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail

  44. Edwards's Hairstreak

  45. Eufala Skipper

  46. European Skipper

  47. Eyed Brown

  48. Falcate Orangetip

  49. Fiery Skipper

  50. Frosted Elfin

  51. Georgia Satyr

  52. Giant Swallowtail

  53. Gray Comma

  54. Gray Hairstreak

  55. Great Purple Hairstreak

  56. Great Spangled Fritillary

  57. Gulf Fritillary

  58. Hackberry Emperor

  59. Harvester

  60. Hayhurst's Scallopwing

  61. Henry's Elfin

  62. Hessel's Hairstreak

  63. Hickory Hairstreak

  64. Hoary Edge

  65. Hoary Elfin

  66. Hobomok Skipper

  67. Horace's Duskywing

  68. Indian Skipper

  69. Juniper Hairstreak

  70. Juvenal's Duskywing

  71. Large Orange Sulphur

  72. Least Skipper

  73. Leonard's Skipper

  74. Little Glassywing

  75. Little Wood-Satyr

  76. Little Yellow

  77. Long Dash

  78. Long-tailed Skipper

  79. Meadow Fritillary

  80. Milbert's Tortoiseshell

  81. Monarch

  82. Mourning Cloak

  83. Mulberry Wing

  84. Northern Broken-Dash

  85. Northern Cloudywing

  86. Northern Metalmark

  87. Northern Pearly-eye

  88. Oak Hairstreak

  89. Ocola Skipper

  90. Orange Sulphur

  91. Painted Lady

  92. Palamedes Swallowtail

  93. Pearl Crescent

  94. Peck's Skipper

  95. Pepper and Salt Skipper

  96. Pipevine Swallowtail

  97. Question Mark

  98. Rare Skipper

  99. Red Admiral

  100. Red-banded Hairstreak

  101. Red-Spotted Admiral

  102. Sachem

  103. Salt Marsh Skipper

  104. Silver-spotted Skipper

  105. Sleepy Duskywing

  106. Sleepy Orange

  107. Southern Broken-Dash

  108. Southern Cloudywing

  109. Spicebush Swallowtail

  110. Spring Azure

  111. Striped Hairstreak

  112. Swarthy Skipper

  113. Tawny-edged Skipper

  114. Tawny Emperor

  115. Two-spotted Skipper

  116. Variegated Fritillary

  117. Viceroy

  118. White M Hairstreak

  119. Wild Indigo Duskywing

  120. Zabulon Skipper

  121. Zebra Swallowtail

Note: I tried to make this list as extensive as possible by including common and uncommon residents and non-residents, immigrants, and natural strays/vagrants from the last 10 years.  Some inclusions are rare and local, or are classified as special concern, threatened, or endangered in New Jersey.