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Butterflies
Butterflies of Rice Creek Field Station

Compiled from studies by Peter G. Weber

Prof. Peter Weber began studies of butterfly populations at Rice Creek Field Station in 1996.  By the fall of 2007, Peter had documented the presence of eighteen species of skippers and forty eight species of true butterflies on the Field Station grounds.  Documentation of these observations includes a collection of over seven hundred photographs now available in digital format at Rice Creek Field Station.

List of species.

Hesperiidae

Delaware Skipper  (Anatrytone logan)

Least Skipper  (Ancyloxypha numitor)

Silver-spotted Skipper  (Epargyreus clarus)

Wild Indigo Duskywing  (Erynnis baptisiae

Dreamy Duskywing  (Erynnis icelus)

Juvenal's Duskywing  (Erynnis juvenalis)

Dun Skipper  (Euphyes vestris)

Leonard's Skipper  (Hesperia leonardus)

Fiery Skipper  (Hylephia phyleus)

Ocola Skipper  (Panoquina ocola)

Hobomok Skipper  (Poanes hobomok)

Long Dash  (Polites mystic)

Peck's Skipper  (Polites peckius)

Tawny-edged Skipper  (Polites thermistocles)

Little Glassywing  (Pompeius verna)

Northern Cloudywing (Thorybes pylades) 

European Skipper  (Thymelicus lineola)

Northern Broken-Dash  (Wallengrenia egeremet)

 

Lycaenidae

Spring Azure  (Celastrina ladon ladon)

Summer Spring Azure  (Celastrina ladon neglecta)

Eastern Tailed-Blue  (Everes comyntas)

Harvester  (Feniseca tarquinius)

Bronze Copper  (Lycaena hyllus)

American Copper  (Lycaena phlaeas)

Banded Hairstreak  (Satyrium calanus)

Hickory Hairstreak  (Satyrium caryaevorus)

Striped Hairstreak  (Satyrium liparops)

Gray Hairstreak (Satyrium melinus) 
Coral Hairstreak  (Satyrium titus)
 

Nymphalidae

  Danainae

Monarch  (Danaus plexippus)

  Heliconiinae

Variegated Fritillary  (Euptoieta claudia

Atlantis Fritillary  (Speyeria atlantis)

Great Spangled Fritillary  (Speyeria cybele)

Aphrodite Fritillary (Speyeris aphrodite
  Libytheinac 
American Snout (Libytheana carinenta) 

  Limenitidinae

Viceroy  (Limenitis archippus)

White Admiral  (Limenitis arthemis arthemis)

White Admiral x Red Spotted Purple (Limenitis arthemis arthemis x astyanax)

  Nymphalinae

Baltimore Checkerspot  (Euphydryas phaeton)

Mourning Cloak  (Nymphalis antiopa)

Milbert's Tortoishell  (Nymphalis milberti)

Comton Tortoiseshell  (Nymphalis vaualbum)

Northern Crescent (Phyciodes selenis)

Pearl Crescent  (Phyciodes tharos)

Eastern Comma  (Polygonia comma)

Question Mark  (Polygonia interrogationis)

Grey Comma  (Polygonia progne)

Red Admiral  (Vanessa atalanta)

Painted Lady  (Vanessa cardui)

American Lady  (Vanessa virginiensis)

  Satyrinae

Common Wood-Nymph  (Cercyonis pegala)

Common Ringlet  (Coenonympha tullia)

Northern Pearly-eye  (Enodia anthedon)

Common Buckeye (Junonia coenia) 

Little Wood-Satyr  (Megisto cymela)

Appalachian Brown  (Satyrodes appalachia)

Eyed Brown  (Satyrodes eurydice)

 

Papilionidae

Canadian Tiger Swallowtail  (Papilio canadensis)

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail  (Papilio glaucus)

Black Swallowtail  (Papilio polyxenes)

Spicebush Swallowtail  (Papilio troilus)

 

Pieridae

Orange Sulphur  (Colias eurytheme)

Clouded Sulphur  (Colias philodice)

Dainty Sulphur (Nathalis iole)

Cabbage White  (Pieris rapae)

West Virginia White  (Pieris virginiensis)

 
 Last Updated: 12/10/07