Butterflies
NATL's butterflies are particularly well known because, in 1996-98, Hugo Kons made a two-year study of what species occur in the principal NATL ecosystems and when they could be found. With one exception, the list below is from his report.
The signs listed after the names of some butterflies were produced by Elena Ortiz-Acevedo, as part of her 2014 minigrant project. These signs can be found throughout NATL.
Superfamily HESPERIOIDEA | |
Family HESPERIIDAE |
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Silver-Spotted Skipper |
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Long-Tailed Skipper, Bean Leafroller |
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Urbanus dorantes (sign) |
Brown Long-Tailed or Dorantes Skipper |
Thorybes pylades |
Northern Cloudy-wing |
Thorybes confusis |
Confused Cloudy-wing |
Erynnis juvenalis |
Juvenalis Dusky-wing |
Erynnis horatius |
Horaces Dusky-wing |
Erynnis zarucco |
Zarucco Dusky-wing |
Pyrgus communis |
Checkered Skipper |
Pyrgus oileus |
Tropical Checkered Skipper |
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Nastra l'herminier |
Swarthy Skipper |
Lerema accius |
Clouded Skipper |
Ancyloxpha numitor |
Least Skipper(ling) |
Copaeodes minima |
Tiny Skipper |
Hylephila phyleus |
Firery Skipper |
Polites baracoa |
Little Tawny Edge |
Polites vibex |
Whirlabout |
Wallengrenia otho |
Southern (Red) Broken Dash |
Wallengrenia egeremet |
Northern (Brown) Broken Dash |
Pompeius verna |
Little Glassy Wing |
Atalopedes campestris |
Sachem |
Atrytone logan |
Deleware or Black-Vein Skipper |
Problema byssus |
Byssus or Golden Skipper |
Poanes yehl |
Yehl or Southern Skipper |
Euphyes vestris |
Dun Skipper, Sedge Witch |
Dion Skipper |
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Amblyscirtes aesculapius |
Cobweb Little Skipper |
Lerodea eufala |
Eufala or Grey Skipper |
Oligoria maculata |
Three Spot Skipper |
Canna or Brazilian Skipper |
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Panoquina ocola |
Ocola or Long-Winged Skipper |
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Yucca (Giant) Skipper |
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Superfamily PAPILIONOIDEA |
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Family PAPLIONIDAE |
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Battus philenor |
Pipevine Swallowtail |
Eastern Black Swallowtail |
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Giant Swallowtail |
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Eastern Tiger Swallowtail |
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Spicebush Swallowtail |
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Laurel or Palamedes Swallowtail |
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Zebra Swallowtail |
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Family PIERIDAE |
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Checkered White, S. Cabbage Worm |
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Cabbage White, European Cabbage Bfly |
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Colias eurytheme |
Orange Sulphur, Alfalfa Butterfly |
Cloudless Sulphur |
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Phoebis philea (sign) |
Orange Barred Sulphur |
Eurema lisa |
Little Sulphur |
Eurema nicippe |
Sleepy or Rambling Orange |
Eurema daira (sign) |
Barred Yellow |
Family LYCAENIDAE |
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Great Purple Hairstreak |
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Satyrium favonius |
Oak Hairstreak |
Satyrium calanus |
Banded Hairstreak |
Redbanded Hairstreak |
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White M Hairstreak |
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Strymon melinus (sign) |
Grey Hairstreak |
Southern or Ceraunus Blue |
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Family NYMPHALIDAE |
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Gulf Fritillary |
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Zebra Long Wing |
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Question Mark |
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Hunters Butterfly, American Painted Lady |
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Vanessa cardui |
Cosmopolitan, Thistle Butterfly, Painted Lady |
Red Admiral |
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Common Buckeye |
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Anartia jatrophe |
White Peacock |
Phaon or Mat Plant Crescent |
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Phyciodes tharos |
Pearl Crescent |
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Red Spotted Purple |
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Viceroy |
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Hackberry Emperor |
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Tawny Emperor |
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Enodia portlandia |
Southern Pearly Eye |
Satyrodes appalachia |
Appalachian Eyed Brown |
Hermeuptychia hermes (sign) |
Carolina Satyr |
Megisto cymela (sign) |
Little Wood Satyr |
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Monarch |
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Danaus gilippus |
Queen |
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Snout Butterfly |
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Poanes aaroni |
Aaron's Skipper |
Poanes viator |
Broad Winged (Marsh) Skipper |
Zerene cessonia |
(Eastern) Dog Face Sulphur |
Nathalis iole |
Dainty Sulphur |
Celastrina ladon |
Common Blue, Spring Azure |
Euptoieta claudia |
Variegated Fritillary |
*On 18 Oct 2010, from the SEEP boardwalk, Akers Pence spotted an unknown skipper that he captured and identified as Euphyes dion. This record was verified by Hugo Kons who caught two additional specimens in SEEP.