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Butterflies

Butterflies of the Refuge and Surrounding Areas


Flittilary butterflyYellow butterflyBlack and blue butterflyMonarch butterflyPale blue butterfly
Aaron's Skipper   Poanes aaroni
American Copper   Lycaena phlaeas
American lady   Vanessa virginiensis
Black Swallowtail   Papilio polyxenes
Broad-winged Skipper   Poanes viator
Brown Elfin   Callophrys augustinus
Buckeye   Junonia coenia
Cabbage White   Pieris rapae
Checkerd Skipper   Pyrgus communis
Clouded (Common) Sulphur   Colias philodice
Clouded Skipper   Lerema accius
Cloudless Sulphur   Phoebis sennae
Comma   Polygonia comma
Common Roadside Skipper   Amblyscirtes sp.
Common Sootywing   Pholisora catullus
Crossline Skipper   Polites origenes
Dun Skipper   Euphyes vestris
Eastern Pine Elfin   Callophrys niphon
Eastern Tailed Blue   Everes comyntas
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail   Papilio glaucus
Falcate Orange-tip   Anthocharis midea
Fiery Skipper   Hylephila phyleus
Frosted Elfin   Callophrys irus
Giant Swallowtail   Papilio cresphontes
Gray Hairstreak   Strymon melinus
Gulf Fritillary   Agraulis vanillae
Hackberry Butterfly   Asterocampa celtis
Horace's Duskywing   Erynnis horatius
Juvenal's Duskywing   Erynnis juvenalis
Large Wood Nymph   Cercyonis pegala
Least Skipper   Ancyloxypha numitor
Little Glassywing   Pompeius verna
Little Wood Satyr   Megisto cymela
Little Yellow   Eurema lisa
Long-tailed Skipper   Urbanus proteus
Long-winged (Ocola) Skipper   Panoquina sp.
Monarch   Danaus plexippus
Mourning Cloak   Nymphalis antiopa
Northern Broken-Dash   Wallengrenia egeremet
Orange Sulphur   Colias eurytheme
Painted Lady   Vanessa cardui
Palamedes Swallowtail   Papilio palamedes
Pearl Crescent   Phyciodes tharos
Pipevine Swallowtail   Battus philenor
Question Mark   Polygonia interrogationis
Red Admiral   Vanessa atalanta
Red-banded Hairstreak  Calycopis cecrops
Red-spotted Purple   Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Sachem   Atalopedes campestris
Saltmarsh Skipper   Panoquina panoquin
Silver-spotted Skipper   Epargyreus clarus
Sleepy Orange   Eurema nicippe
Snout Butterfly   Libytheana carinenta
Southern Broken-Dash   Wallengrenia otho
Spicebush Swallowtail   Papilio troilus
Spring Azure   Celastrina argiolus
Swarthy Skipper   Nastra lherminier
Tawny Emperor   Asterocampa clyton
Tawny-edged Skipper   Polites themistocles
Variegated Fritillary   Euptoieta claudia
Viceroy   Limenitis archippus
Wild Indigo Duskywing   Erynnis baptisiae
Zabulon Skipper   Poanes zabulon

Updated: March 13, 2008

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