Visits since October 2003

Welcome,
      This site is a field guide to Israel's Insects and Invertebrates. The main focus is on Butterflies (Lepidoptera) and Beetles (Coleoptera). In addition there are some world species pages for Saturniids,Cetoniids ect.  

 This site is being updtaed weekly with more images and information, so you are more than welcome to check it out once in a while.

I hope you'll enjoy this site as much as I enjoy gathering the material for it.

My e-mail is: israelbutterflies@gmail.com

All the pictures in this web-site are for sale for publishing or any other purposes and are right protected, any use of them require permision or else forbidden.  High resolution pictures are also available  for sale or by special request. 

Please visit my site about the insects of Argentina:

Special thanks to my father for his support over the years.

Vladimir Chikatunov (Department of Zoology, Faculty of life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University) for his invaluable help with the study and identification of Israeli Coleoptera.

Alex Shlagman and Leonid Fridman (Department of Zoology,Faculty of Life Sciences,Tel-Aviv University), for their great help,time and spirit.  

Gil Wizen (Department of Zoology,Faculty of Life Sciences,Tel-Aviv University), for sharing some of his beautifull photos.

Eylon Orbach for very good assistance and cooporation in different Coleoptera aspects.

Plant Protection & Inspection Services (PPIS) of Israel (Israel Agricultural Department) for letting me study and take photographs from the insects collection (Thank you Mrs.G.Alexandra Dr.K.Wolf).

Avihai Binyamini for his help and friendship.

Mark Volkovich (Laboratory of Insect Systematics, Zoological Institute RAS,Universitetskaya nab, St.Petersburg, Russia) for his great help and support in identification of Buprestidae specimens. 

Klaas-Douwe 'KD' B. Dijkstra of the National Museum of Natural History of the Netherlands for assisting with Odonata ID.

Marco Ulliana (Italy) for good correspondense over the years.

Guido Sabatinelli (Italy) for his great support with the Scarabaeoidea superfamily and for his good friendship.

And last, special thanks to ludmi  for being there in every moment.

                                                                                                        Rittner Oz

                                                                                                          Visits since October 2003