Ruby-spotted Swallowtail @ Santa Ana NWR - Oct. 25

[Mike Quinn]

Here's a species missed during the Texas Butterfly Festival, Oct. 18-21.
Mike

Ruby-spotted Swallowtail, photograph taken October 25, 2001 at Santa Ana
NWR, Alamo, Hidalgo Co., TX (Ellie Thompson) 
http://www.naba.org/sightings/Rubyspottedswallowtail.htm

USGS Info:

Ruby-spotted Swallowtail (Papilio anchisiades) 
http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/usa/696.htm

FWS Info:

Butterflies of Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge 
http://southwest.fws.gov/refuges/texas/stabuttr.html

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Mike Quinn
Invertebrate Biologist
Wildlife Diversity Branch
Texas Parks & Wildlife
mike.quinn at tpwd.state.tx.us

 
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