Toledo Bend Lake Butterfly Guide

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1 Toledo Bend Lake Butterfly Guide 2007 January 23, 2007 Obtain the latest copy in PDF format on Toledo-Bend.Com or Toledo-Bend.US. a

2 These are butterflies photographed in the general Toledo Bend Lake Area by Frank Dutton. This guide does not include every butterfly you may see in the area but we are working to get pictures of them all and update this guide from time to time. Visit Toledo-Bend.Com for complete area information Toledo-Bend.US for area nature photos Copyright 2006/2007 by Frank Dutton, Many, LA This material is copyright by Frank Dutton / Toledo-Bend.Com and Toledo-Bend.US all rights reserved. This is published for free distribution and may not be sold or altered in any way. This guide may be reprinted and distributed either without charge or with a NOMINAL charge to cover printing, so long as it is While a great deal of effort is made to ensure correct identifications, there is a distinct possibility of error and the user must accept this material with that understanding. Information / Identification Sources: All photos by Frank Dutton, Many, LA For identification our primary reference is Butterflies of North America - Kaufman Focus Guides - by Jim P. Brock & Ken Kaufman. We also use internet sources when in question - typically BugGuide ( and Jeff's Butterfly Page ( Our text information comes from Butterflies & Moths of North America ( For many more pictures of these butterflies and moths - and many other nature photos, visit ii

3 Table of Contents Family / Subfamily / Species Pictures Text Brush-footed Butterflies Admirals & Relatives Red-spotted Purple Emperors Hackberry Emperor Longwings Gulf Fritillary Variegated Fritillary Milkweed Butterflies Monarch Satyrs and Wood-Nymphs Carolina Satyr Creole Pearly Eye Gemmed Satyr Little Wood Satyr Southern Pearly Eye Viola's Wood Satyr True Brushfoots American Lady Buckeye Eastern Comma Mourning Cloak Painted Lady Pearl Crescent Phaon Crescent Question Mark Red Admiral Gossamer-wing Butterflies Blues Ceranus Blue Eastern Tailed-Blue Summer Azure Hairstreaks Gray Hairstreak Oak (Northern) Hairstreak Red-Banded Hairstreak Skippers Grass Skippers Clouded Crossline Dun Eufala Firey Northern Broken-Dash Southern Broken-Dash Twin-Spot iii

4 Family / Subfamily / Species Pictures Text Spread-wing Skippers Common Checkered Confused Cloudywing Funeral Duskywing Horace's Juvenal's Long-Tailed Northern Cloudywing Silver-Spotted Tropical Checkered Zarucco Duskywing Swallowtails Swallowtails Black Eastern Tiger Eastern Tiger Dark Female Giant Palamedes Pipevine Spicebush Zebra Whites - Sulphurs Sulphurs Clouded Cloudless Dainty Little Yellow Lyside Orange Sleepy Orange Southern Dogface Whites Falcate Orangetip Moths Ailanthus Webwing Eastern Tent Caterpillar Giant Leopard Grape Leaffolder Imperial Io Nessus Sphinx Orange-tipped Oakworm For many more photos of these butterflies and moths and other area nature photos, visit - see our area Birding Checklist there, too! iv

5 Family: Brush-footed - Nymphalidae Subfamily: Admirals and Relatives (Limenitidinae) Red-spotted Purple Butterfly Limenitis arthemis astyanax Subfamily: Emperors (Apaturinae) Hackberry Emperor Butterfly Asterocampa celtis Subfamily: Longwings (Heliconiinae) Gulf Fritillary Butterfly Agraulis vanillae 1

6 Gulf Fritillary Carerpillar Agraulis vanillae Variegated Fritillary Butterfly Euptoieta claudia Subfamily: Milkweed butterflies (Danainae) Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus 2

7 Subfamily: Satyrs and Wood-Nymphs (Satyrinae) Carolina Satyr Butterfly Hermeuptychia sosybius Creole Pearly-eye Butterfly Enodia creola Gemmed Satyr Butterfly Cyllopsis gemma 3

8 Little Wood-satyr Butterfly Megisto cymela Southern Pearly-eye Butterfly Enodia portlandia Viola's Wood-satyr Megisto viola 4

9 Subfamily: True Brushfoots (Nymphalinae) American Lady Butterfly Vanessa virginiensis Buckeye Butterfly Junonia coenia Eastern Comma Butterfly Polygonia comma 5

10 Mourning Cloak Butterfly Nymphalis antiopa Painted Lady Butterfly Vanessa cardui 6

11 Pearl Crescent Butterfly Phyciodes tharos Phaon Crescent Butterfly Phyciodes phaon Question Mark Butterfly Polygonia interrogationis 7

12 Red Admiral Butterfly Vanessa atalanta Family: Gossamer-wing Lycaenidae Subfamily: Blues (Polyommatinae) Ceraunus Blue Butterfly Hemiargus ceraunus 8

13 Females Above Males Below Eastern Tailed-Blue Butterfly Everes comyntas Summer Azure Butterfly Celastrina neglecta 9

14 Subfamily: Hairstreaks (Theclinae) Gray Hairstreak Butterfly Strymon melinus Oak (Northern) Hairstreak Butterfly Satyrium favonius ontario Red-banded Hairstreak Butterfly Calycopis cecrops 10

15 Family: Skippers Hesperiidae Subfamily: Grass skippers (Hesperiinae) Clouded Skipper Butterfly Lerema accius Crossline Skipper Butterfly Polites origenes Dun Skipper Butterfly Euphyes vestris 11

16 Eufala Skipper Butterfly Lerodea eufala Males above - Females below Firey Skipper Butterfly Hylephila pjyleus 12

17 Northern Broken-dash Skipper Butterfly Wallengrenia egeremet Southern Broken-Dash Skipper Butterfly Wallengrenia otho Twin-spot Skipper Butterfly Oligoria maculata 13

18 Subfamily: Spread-wing Skippers (Pyrgines) Common/White Checkered-Skipper Butterfly Pyrgus communis / Pyrgus albescens Confused Cloudywing Butterfly Thorybes confusis 14

19 Funeral Duskywing Butterfly Erynnis funeralis Horace's Duskywing Butterfly Erynnis horatius Juvenal's Duskywing Butterfly Erynnis juvenalis 15

20 Long-tailed Skipper Butterfly Urbanus proteus Northern Cloudywing Butterfly Thorybes pylades Silver-Spotted Skipper Butterfly Epargyreus clarus 16

21 Tropical Checkered-Skipper Butterfly Pyrgus oileus Zarucco Duskywing Butterfly Erynnis zarucco 17

22 Family: Parnassians and Swallowtails Papilionidae Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio glaucus Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Dark Female 18

23 Giant Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio cresphontes Palamedes Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio palamedes Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly Battus philenor 19

24 Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly Papilio troilus Zebra Swallowtail Butterfly Eurytides marcellus 20

25 Family: Whites and Sulphurs Pieridae Subfamily: Sulphurs (Coliadinae) Clouded Sulphur Butterfly Colias philodice Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly Phoebis sennae Dainty Sulphur Butterfly Nathalis iole 21

26 Little Yellow Butterfly Eurema lisa Lyside Sulphur Butterfly Kricogonia lyside Orange Sulphur Butterfly Colias eurytheme 22

27 Sleepy Orange Butterfly Eurema nicippe Southern Dogface Colias cesonia Subfamily Description: Whites (Pierinae) Falcate Orangetip Butterfly Anthocharis midea 23

28 Moths Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Class: Insecta Pterygota Order: Lepidoptera Ailanthus Webwing Moth Atteva punctella Eastern Tent Caterpillar Moth Malacosoma americanum 24

29 Giant Leopard Moth Hypercompe scribonia Grape Leaffolder Moth Desmia funeralis 25

30 Imperial Moth Eacles imperialis Io Moth Automeris io Nessus Sphinx Moth Amphion floridensis / A. nessus 26

31 Orange-tipped Oakworm Moth Caterpillar Anisota senatoria 27

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