CITES works by subjecting international trade in specimens of selected species to certain controls. All import, export, re-export and introduction from the sea of species covered by the Convention has to be authorized through a licensing system. Each Party to the Convention must designate one or more Management Authorities in charge of administering that licensing system and one or more Scientific Authorities to advise them on the effects of trade on the status of the species.

Appendices I and II 

Appendix I includes species threatened with extinction. Trade in specimens of these species is permitted only in exceptional circumstances.

Appendix II includes species not necessarily threatened with extinction, but in which trade must be controlled in order to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival.

Appendix III

This Appendix contains species that are protected in at least one country, which has asked other CITES Parties for assistance in controlling the trade. Changes to Appendix III follow a distinct procedure from changes to Appendices I and II, as each Party's is entitled to make unilateral amendments to it.

Appendix-I specimens

An import permit issued by the Management Authority of the State of import is required.

An export permit or re-export certificate issued by the Management Authority of the State of export or re-export is also required.

Appendix-II specimens 

An export permit or re-export certificate issued by the Management Authority of the State of export or re-export is required.

No import permit is needed unless required by national law.

Appendix III

This Appendix contains species that are protected in at least one country, which has asked other CITES Parties for assistance in controlling the trade.

List of species protected by CITES Appendix II

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

CITES

This is a list of species of plants and animals protected by Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, commonly abbreviated as CITES. There are no fungi listed in any appendix.[1]

List of species protected by CITES Appendix I

List of species protected by CITES Appendix III

Collector's secret

Teinopalpus for sale

New Teinopalpus listed everyday, add this page to your favorites. Legal notice : check that the seller provides CITES II permits with the Teinopalpus.

How would you ever know what list it is on, if any? Cause I can not tell...... How do you then find out if the seller is allowed to sell and not least whether you are allowed to  import this butterfly into your own country?

Pieris gyantsensis

Unmounted butterfly:Pieris gyantsensis male

Just about all I could find out about it. It is from Tibet in Nepal and does not seem to be found anywhere else and Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae.

Pieris gyantsensis VERITY, 1911