White Mts, East-Central Arizona
Bruce Walsh
jbwalsh at u.arizona.edu
Thu Jun 17 11:08:51 EDT 1999
White Mountains, Central SE Arizona (its that funny dot on the
Arizona-New Mexico border in many of the range maps is Scott and Opler's Books)
Mostly cloudy, only a total of 5 hours of collecting over two days (June
15, 16)
20+ Dreamy duskywing skipper (Erynnis icelus)
10 Northern Cloudywing Skipper (Thorybes pylades)
20 .Silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus huachuca)
6 Tawny-edged skipper (Polites themistocles)
15 Western Tiger Swallowtails (Papilio rutulus arizonesis)
2 Checked White (Pieris protodice)
3 Clouded Sulphur (Colias philodice eriphyle)
2 Queen Alexandra's sulphur (Colias alexandra)
2 Dainty sulphurs (Nathalis iole)
2 Marine Blues (Leptotes marina)
10 Spring Azures (Celastrina ladon) --- perhaps different species, as
very dark hindwing relative to typical SE Arizona ladon
1 Silvery Blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus)
3 Lupine Blue (Icaricia lupini)
2 Northwestern fritillary (Speyeria hesperis)
2 Dotted checkerspot (Poladryas minuta)
30+ Silvery checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis) --- larvae common
1 Northern Crescent (Phyciodes cocyta)
5 Mylitta Crescent (Phycoides mylitta)
1 Satyr Anglewing (Polygonia satyrus)
10 Milbert's Tortoiseshell (Nymphalis milberti) -- larvae common on
nettle
3 Mourning Cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)
Sphingidae
2 One-eyed sphinx (Smerinthus cerisyi)
Saturniidae
1 Oculea silkmoth (Antheraea oculea)
1 Lusk's pinemoth (Coloradia luski)
Noctuidae: Catocalinae
10+ Euparthenos nubilis apache (flying at dusk and coming to light)
Bruce Walsh
Figures of most species can be found at:
Arizona Moths page: http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/mothl
ist.html
Arizona butterflies page: http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies
/seazlist.html
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