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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