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Butterflies of North America webpages, now operated
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Family/scientific name/common name residency abundance
Family Nymphalidae (*Note: Use mouse to click on each species listed below to find out more about the butterfly.)
Subfamily Nymphalinae
1. Anartia jatrophae (white peacock) B 1
2. Phyciodes phaon (phaon crescent) B 3
3. Junonia coenia (common buckeye) B 2
4. Vanessa atalanta (red admiral) B 2
5. V. cardui (painted lady) B 3
6. Siproeta steneles (malachite) V 3
Subfamily Limenitidinae
1. Marpesia petreus (ruddydagger wing) B 2
2. Limenitus archippus floridensis (viceroy) B 3
Subfamily Danainae
1. Danaus plexippus (monarch) B 1
2. D. giluppus berenice (queen) B 3
3. D. eresimus (soldier) B 3
Subfamily Heliconiinae
1. Agraulis vanillae (gulf fritillary) B 1
2. Dryas julia (Julia) B 2
3. Heliconius charitonius tuckeri (zebra) B 1
Family Papilionidae
1. Heraclites cresphontes (giant swallowtail) B 2
2. Papilio palamedes (palamedes swallowtail) B 2
3. Papilio polyxenes (black swallowtail) V 3
Family Pieridae
Subfamily Coliadinae
1. Phoebis sennae (cloudless sulphur) B 1
2. P. philea (orange-barred sulphur) B 1
3. P. agarithe (agarithe sulphur) V 3
4. Nathalis iole (dainty sulphur) B 2
5. Eurema daira (daira sulphur) B 2
6. E. nicippe (sleepy orange) B 2
Subfamily Pierinae
1. Pieris protodice (checkered white) V 3
2. Ascia monuste (great southern white) V 3
Family Lycaenidae
Subfamily Theclinae
1. Eumaeus atala (atala) B 2
2. Ministrymon angelica (angel hairstreak) ? 3
3. Panthiades m-album (white-m hairstreak) B 3
4. Strymon melinus (gray hairstreak) B 2
5. S. martialis (martial scrub-hairstreak) B 2
6. S. columella (columella hairstreak) ? 3
Subfamily Polyommartinal
1. Leptotes cassius (cassius blue) B 1
Family Hesperiidae
Subfamily Pyrginae
1. Goniurus proteus (long-tailed skipper) B 1
2. G. dorantes (dorantes skipper) B 3
3. Pyrgus oileus (tropical checkered-skipper) B 1
4. Erynnis zarucco (zarucco duskywing) ? 3
5. Polygonius lividus (hammock skipper) B 2
Subfamily Hesperiinae
1. Asbolis capucinus (monk skipper) B 2
2. Hylephila phileus (fiery skipper) B 1
3. Panoquines ocola (ocola skipper) B 2
4. Lerema accius (dusty skipper) B 3
5. Oligora maculata (twin-spot skipper) B 3
6. Cymaenes tripunctus (three-spotted skipper) B 2
7. Polites bacaroa (baracoa skipper) B 1
8. Atalopedes campestris (sachem skipper) B 1
TOTAL SPECIES = 45
Key to abbreviations:
| Residency | B = breeding in the Preserve | V = visitor (probably non-breeding) | ? = unknown |
| Abundance | 1 = common | 2 = occasional | 3 = rarely seen |
Compiled by Thomas Pliske, Ph.D., Environmental Studies Department, Florida International University
March, 2003
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The resource used for information to compliment
Dr. Pliske's compilation is:
Opler, Paul A., Harry Pavulaan, and Ray
E. Stanford (coordinators).
1995. Butterflies
of North America. Jamestown, ND: Northern
Prairie Wildlife
Research Center Home Page.
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/bflyusa.htm
(Version 12DEC2003).
See http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/
This resource is based on the following sources:
Opler, Paul A. 1995. Lepidoptera
of North America: 2. Distribution of the
butterflies
(Papilionoidea and Hesperioides) of the eastern United States.
Contributions
of the C.P. Gillette Museum of Insect Biodiversity.
Colorado State
University, Fort Collins, Colo. Unpaginated.
Pavulaan, Harry and Paul A. Opler.
1995. Atlas of eastern butterflies.
Unpublished information.
Stanford, Ray E. and Paul A. Opler.
1993. Atlas of western USA butterflies,
including
adjacent parts of Canada and Mexico. Published by authors.
Denver, Colorado.
275pp.
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