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A SPECIES LEVEL CHECKLIST OF 153 BUTTERFLIES OF UTAH

(Listing some applicable Utah subspecies)

 [Species Common Name]

PARNASSIIDAE (2 species) (PARNASSIDS)

  • Parnassius clodius menetriesi Hy Edwards 1877. (utah america parnassian)
  • Parnassius phoebus smintheus Doubleday 1847. (rockymountain holarctic parnassian)

    • PAPILIONIDAE (8 species) Latreille 1809. (SWALLOWTAILS)

  • Battus philenor Linnaeus 1771. (blue pipevine swallowtail)
  • Papilio multicaudatus Kirby 1884. (great western swallowtail)
  • Papilio rutulus Lucas 1852. (western tiger swallowtail)
  • Papilio eurymedon Lucas 1852. (pale tiger swallowtail)
  • Papilio zelicaon gothica Remington 1968. (mountain anise swallowtail)
  • Papilio bairdi WH Edwards 1866. (western black swallowtail)
  • Papilio coloro Wright 1905. (mojave swallowtail)
  • Papilio indra minori Cross 1937. (mesa-rim cliff swallowtail)
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    PIERIDAE (22 species) Duponchel 1832. (WHITES, ORANGETIPS, & SULFURS)

  • Neophasia menapia Felder & Felder 1859. (pine white)
  • Pieris rapae Linnaeus 1758. (cabbage butterfly)
  • Pieris napi pallidissima Barnes & McDunn. 1916. (utah all white)
  • Pieris protodice Boisd.& LeConte 1829. (checkered white)
  • Pieris occidentalis Reakirt 1866. (western white)
  • Pieris beckeri WH Edwards 1871. (sagebrush white)
  • Pieris sisymbri Boisduval 1852. (spring white)
  • Euchloe ausonides Lucas 1852. (creamy marblewing)
  • Euchloe hyantis lotta Beutenmuller 1898. (southern pearly marblewing)
  • Anthocharis sara browningi Skinner 1905. (utah sara orangetip)
  • Anthocharis pima WH Edwards 1888. (pima orangetip)
  • Anteos clorinde nivifera Frahstorfer 1907. (white angled brimstone)
  • Phoebis sennae marcellina Cramer 1779. (western cloudless sulfur)
  • Zerene cesonia Stoll 1790. (southern poodleface)
  • Colias philodice eriphyle WH Edwards 1876. (western common sulfur)
  • Colias eurytheme Boisduval 1852. (orange sulfur)
  • Colias occidentalis wasatchia Gillette 1989. (utah golden sulfur)
  • Colias alexandra WH Edwards 1863. (alexandra sulfur)
  • Colias meadi WH Edwards 1871. (orange alpine sulfur)
  • Colias scudderi Reakirt 1865. (mountain forest sulfur)
  • Eurema nicippe Cramer 1780. (rambling orange)
  • Nathalis iole Boisduval 1836. (dwarf yellow)
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    LYCAENIDAE (48 species) Leach 1815. (GOSSAMER BUTTERFLIES)

  • Ministrymon leda WH Edwards 1882. (mesquite hairstreak)
  • Strymon melinus Hubner 1818. (common hairstreak)
  • Strymon titus immaculosus WP Comstock 1913. (immaculate coral hairstreak)
  • Satyrium behri crossi Field 1938. (rockymountain orange hairstreak)
  • Satyrium saepium f. provo Watson& WP Comstock 1920. (utah sepia hairstreak)
  • Satyrium californicum WH Edwards 1862. (western hairstreak)
  • Satyrium sylvinum putnami Hy Edwards 1877. (utah willow hairstreak)
  • Satyrium fuliginosum WH Edwards 1861. (sooty hairstreak)
  • Satyrium calanum godarti Field 1938. (western banded hairstreak)
  • Incisalia eryphon Boisduval 1852. (western pine elfin)
  • Incisalia augustinus iroides Boisduval 1852. (western brown elfin)
  • Incisalia fotis Strecker 1878. (grey elfin)
  • Incisalia polia obscurus Ferris & Fisher 1973. (western hoary elfin)
  • Callophrys affinis WH Edwards 1862. (large green hairstreak)
  • Callophrys sheridani WH Edwards 1877. (small green hairstreak)
  • Callophrys comstocki Henne 1940. (mojave green hairstreak)
  • Mitoura siva chalcosiva Clench 1981. (coppery juniper hairstreak)
  • Mitoura spinetorum Hewitson 1867. (blue mistletoe hairstreak)
  • Hypaurotis crysalus WH Edwards 1873. (purple gambel hairstreak)
  • Atlides halesus estesi Clench 1942. (western great-blue hairstreak)
  • Lycacna arota schellbachi Tilden 1955. (rockymountain tailed copper)
  • Lycaena hyllus Cramer 1775. (bronze copper)
  • Lycaena helloides Boisduval 1852. (common purplish copper)
  • Lycaena nivalis browni dos Passos 1938. (rockymountain canary copper)
  • Lycaena editha montana Field 1936. (rockymountain blotched copper)
  • Lycaena heteronea Boisduval 1852. (blue copper)
  • Lycaena rubida sirius WH Edwards 1871. (rockymountain ruddy copper)
  • Lycaena cuprea snowi WH Edwards 1881. (alpine lustrous copper)
  • Lycaena phlaeas polaris Courvoisier 1911. (arctic-alpine boreal copper)
  • Celastrina argiolus radon Cramer 1780. (spring azure)
  • Glaucopsyche lygdamus colombia Skinner 1917. (northwestern silvery blue)
  • Glaucopsyche piasus daunia WH Edwards 1871. (rockymountain arrowhead blue)
  • Euphilotes battoides Behr 1867 (squarespot blue)
  • Euphilotes enoptes ancilla Barnes & McDunn. 1918. (utah leopardspot blue)
  • Euphilotes spaldingi Barnes & McDunn. 1917. (utah summer blue)
  • Euphilotes rita pallescens Tilden & Downey 1955. (pale desert blue)
  • Everes amyntula Boisduval 1852. (western tailed blue)
  • Plebejus saepiolus gertschi dos Passos 1938. (plateaus clover blue)
  • Plebejus idas annette WH Edwards 1882. (wasatch northern blue)
  • Plebejus melissa WH Edwards 1873. (common bordered blue)
  • Plebejus acmon lutzi dos Passos 1938. (rockymountain silverstudded blue)
  • Plebejus icarioides ardea WH Edwards 1871. (great-basin lupine blue)
  • Plebejus shasta WH Edwards 1862. (metallic-green blue)
  • Plebejus glandon rusticus WH Edwards 1865. (rustic boreal blue)
  • Hemiargus isola alce WH Edwards 1871. (blackspotted solitary blue)
  • Hemiargus ceraunus gyas WH Edwards 1871. ( singlespot antillean blue)
  • Leptotes marina Reakirt 1868. (striped blue)
  • Brephidium exile Boisduval 1852. (western pigmy blue)
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    RIODINIDAE (3 species) Grote 1895. (METALMARKS)

  • Apodemia mormo mormo Felder & Felder 1859. (utah mormon metalmark)
  • Apodemia palmeri WH Edwards 1870. (ghost metalmark)
  • Calephelis nemesis WH Edwards 1871. (dusky metalmark)
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    LIBYTHEIDAE (1 specie) Boisduval 1840. (SNOUT BUTTERFLIES)

  • Libythea bachmani larvata Strecker 1878. (southwestern snout butterfly)
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    NYMPHALIDAE (51 species) Swainson 1827. ( RUSHFOOT BUTTERFLIES)

  • Asterocampa celtis montis WH Edwards 1883. (western hackberry butterfly)
  • Basilarchia archippus obsoleta WH Edwards 1882. (southwestern desert viceroy)
  • Basilarchia weidemeyeri latifascia Perkins& Perkins 1967. (wideband western admiral)
  • Adelpha bredowi eulalia Dbl. & Hew. 1848. (arizona sister)
  • Precis coenia Hubuer 1822. (buckeye)
  • Vanessa atalanta Linnaeus 1758. (red admiral)
  • Vanessa carye annabella Field 1971. (western lady)
  • Vanessa cardui Linnaeus 1758. (painted lady)
  • Vanessa virginiensis Drury 1773. (painted beauty)
  • Nymphalis antiopa Linnaeus 1758. (mourning cloak)
  • Nymphalis milberti Godart 1819. (american tortoiseshell)
  • Nymphalis californica Boisduval 1852. (western tortoiseshell)
  • Nymphalis vaualbum j-album Boisduval &LeConte 1833. (eastern holarctict)
  • Polygonia satyrus WH Edwards 1869. (golden anglewing)
  • Polygonia zephyrus WH Edwards 1870. (spangled anglewing)
  • Polygonia oreas nigrozephyrus Scott 1984. (rockymountain western anglewing)
  • Polygonia faunus rusticus WH Edwards 1874 (western green anglewing)
  • Chlosyne lacinia crocale WH Edwards 1874. (southwestern sunflower patch)
  • Chlosyne californica Wright 1905. (california patch)
  • Phyciodes tharos pascoensis Wright 1905. (western pearl crescent)
  • Phyciodes pulchella camillus WH Edwards 1871. (rockymountain field crescent)
  • Phyciodes pictus WH Edwards 1865. (painted crescent)
  • Phyciodes mylitta WH Edwards 1861. (thistle crescent)
  • Phyciodes pallidus barnesi Skinner 1897. (large pale crescent)
  • Charidryas gorgone carlota Reakirt 1866. (plains zigzag crescent)
  • Charidryas neumoegeni Skinner 1895. (desert checkerspot)
  • Charidryas acastus WH Edwards 1874. (sagebrush checkerspot)
  • Charidryas palla flavula Barnes & McDunnough 1918. (creamy northern checkerspot)
  • Charidryas damoetas Skinner 1902. (felsenmeer checkerspot)
  • Thessalia leanira alma Strecker 1878. (utah beaded checkerspot)
  • Poladryas arachne WH Edwards 1869. (spiderweb penstemon checkerspot)
  • Euphydryas anicia maria Skinner 1899. (wasatch anicia checkerspot)
  • Euphydryas editha Boisduval 1852. (ridge checkerspot)
  • Euphydryas chalcedona hermosa Wright 1905. (arizona chalcedon checkerspot)
  • Euphydryas colon nevadensis Bauer 1975. (nevada dark checkerspot)
  • Boloria kriemhild Strecker 1879. (middlerockies bolorian)
  • Boloria titania helena WH Edwards 1871. (southernrockies common bolorian)
  • Boloria freija browni Higgins 1953. (rockymountain zigzag bolorian)
  • Boloria selene tollandensis Barnes &Benjamin 1925. (rockymountain silver bolorian)
  • Speyeria coronis snyderi Skinner 1897 (utah coronis fritillary)
  • Speyeria zerene platina Skinner 1897. (utah zerene fritillary)
  • Speyeria nevadensis harmonia dos Passos & Grey 1945. (great-basin green fritillary)
  • Speyeria egleis utahensis Skinner 1919. (utah egleis fritillary)
  • Speyeria atlantis wasatchia dos Passos & Grey 1945. (wasatch dark fritillary)
  • Speyeria hydaspe sakantula Skinner 1911. (rockymountain maroon fritillary)
  • Speyeria mormonia Boisduval 1869. (mormon subalpine fritillary)
  • Speyeria leto letona Behr 1862. (western spangled fritillary)
  • Speyeria nokomis apacheana Skinner 1918. (lightdisc wetlands fritillary)
  • Speyeria aphrodite ethne Hemming 1933. (western aphrodite fritillary)
  • Speyeria edwardsi Reakirt 1866. (longspot fritillary)
  • Euptoieta claudia Cramer 1776. (variegated fritillary)
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    DANAIDAE (2 species) Bates 1861. (MILKWEED BUTTERFLIES)

  • Danaus plexippus Linnaeus 1758. (monarch)
  • Danaus gilippus strigosus Bates 1864. (striated western queen)
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    SATYRIDAE (16 species) Boisduval 1833. (SATYRS)

  • Euptychia pertepida dorothea Nabokov 1943. (rimrock spangled brown)
  • Coenonympha ampelos elko WH Edwards 1881. (elko oregon holarctic ringlet)
  • Coenonympha ochracea brenda WH Edwards 1869. (utah ochre holarctic ringlet)
  • Cercyonis oetus Boisduval 1869. (small dark woodnymph)
  • Cercyonis sthenele masoni Cross 1937. (colorado scrub woodnymph)
  • Cercyonis pegala boopis Behr 1864. (oxeyed common woodnymph)
  • Cercyonis meadi WH Edwards 1872. (redflushed woodnymph)
  • Neominois ridingsi dionysius Scudder 1878. (kaibab banded greyling)
  • Oeneis chryxus Doubleday 1849. (common arctic)
  • Oeneis jutta reducta McDunnough 1929. (western forest arctic)
  • Oeneis uhleri Reakirt 1866. (ocellate arctic)
  • Oeneis taygete edwardsi dos Passos 1949. (rockymountain whiteveined artic)
  • Oeneis melissa lucilla Barnes &McDunn. 1918. (mottled smoky arctic)
  • Erebia epipsodea Butler 1868. (common alpine)
  • Erebia callias WH Edwards 1871. (grey alpine)
  • Erebia magdalena Strecker 1880. (black alpine)
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    Compiled by COL CLYDE F. GILLETTE

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    Introduction to the Checklist of Utah Butterflies

    All images of Limenitis weidemeyeri on the ULS Info Bar courtesy Jay Cossey

     

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