Vol. 37, Number 4 - Yale University

News of the 

Lepidopterists' Society 

Season Summary June 1995 

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News of the Lepidopteristss Society 

Season Summary June 1995 

Edited by Marc C. Minno and Maria F. Minno 

Information about the Lepidopterists' Society can be found inside the baelr cover. 

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ALASKA, YUKON, 

AND THE 

NORTHWEST 

TERRITORIES 

Coordinator: Kenelm W. Philip (KP) 

Contributors: Clifford Ferris (CF), Kicky 

Patterson (RP), Joe Zeligs (JZ), and collectors 

forthe Alaska Lepidoptera Survey. 

Notes: Previously unreported localities or 

species are emphasized. Collecting was done by 

Alaska Lepidoptera Survey volunteers unless 

noted. Species names follow Lepidopterists' 

Society Memoir #3. 

Note regarding Alaska Lepidoptera Survey: 

K. Philip spent 20-30 May collecting in the 

southern Yukon Territory (Lake Laberge), and the 

Haines area in Southeastern Alaska. C. Ferris 

and K. Philip, with logistic support from the U.S. 

Bureau of Land Management, spent10-29 June 

in the lvotuk Hills near OtukCreek, North Slope, 

Alaska. Only a reconnaissance of the beginning 

of the season was possible, owing to long periods 

of cold and snow. K. Philip collected the Nabesna 

Road on 14-15 July. 

YUKON TERRITORY 

Weather: In thesouthern Yukon, spring was 

appreciably behind Interior Alaska, possibly 

because of the higher elevation. At Lake Laberge, 

21-30 May, the season wasjust beginning. 

Damaged collecting sites: The roadside 

stripjust west of the Bear Flats Lodge (old mile 

1,167Alaska Highway, current km 1,877.6) is an 

excellent spot for Colias kluanensis, but it has 

been stripped of its vegetation during highway 

construction, and may take some time to 

recover. Another good roadside area, along the 

dirtroad that runs south on the west side of 

Burwash Creek, has been severely impacted by 

gravel quarrying. 

BUTTERFLIES 

ALASKA HIGHWAY - Cracker 

Creek, km 1,593, 21 June (JZ), 

Hesperia manitoba, Colias 

philodice, C. canadensis, C. 

krauthiikluanensis, Euchloe 

creusa, Everes amyntula, 

Glaucopsyche lygdamus, 

hcaeides idas, Plebeius 

saepiolus, Agriades rusticus, 

Clossianafigga, Oeneis chryxus. 

Bear Creek summit, krn 1,659,21 

June (JZ), Hesperia manitoba, 

Pontia occidentalis, Pieris napi, 

Colias philodice, Colias 

canadensis, Euchloe ausonides, 


Lycaeides idas, Plebejus 

saepiolus, Clossianafigga, 

Euphydryas anicia, Erebia 

epipsodea. Three miles north of 

White River, km 1,883, 22 June 

(JZ), Pyrgus centaureae, 

Carterocephalus palaemon, 

Parnassius eversmanni, 

Pterourus glaucus, Pieris napi, 

Colias canadensis, Euchloe 

creusa, Euchloe ausonides, 

Everes amyntula, Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus, Lycaeides idas, 

Plebejus saepiolus, Proclossiana 

eunomia, Clossianafrgga, 

Clossianafreja, Phyciodes 

pratensis, Coenonympha kodiak, 

Erebia disa, Oeneis bore. 

YUKON HIGHWAY 2 (Klondike 

Loop) to Lake Laberge, 21,29-30 

May (KP), additional species (see 

1987,1989-90,1993 Season 

Summaries), Pontia occidentalis. 

ALASKA 

Weather: The northern North Slope had 

excellent collecting weather in June, but nearer 

the Brooks Kange an early June warm spell was 

followed bya month of snow squallsand cold. 

Galbraith Lake had 8 inchesof snow on the 

ground on 20 June. Interior Alaska had a 

slightly early spring,followed by heavy rains in 

June. 

Damaged collecting sites: The turnoff at 

Little Gerstle Creek, east of Big Delta on the 

Alaska Highway, was used for pumping water for 

highway construction -and most of the 

vegetation was bladed off. 

Range extensions: Hyfes gallii (Sphingidae) 

from the lvotuk Hills, North Slope. 

New collecting localities: 

(1) lvotuk Hills, near Otuk Creek, on the North 

Slope just outside the northwest corner of 

Gates of the Arctic National Park. There is a 

largegravel airstrip 1.5 miles west ofthe hills, 

and a road to the base of the hills. Thereare 

three ridge systems. Of the two nearest the 

airstrip, the northern one is vegetated almostto 

the top, while the southern and higher ridge 

system is covered with fine limestone scree. 

(2) Devil's Mountain Lodge, mile42 Nabesna 

Road. There isan airstripatthe lodge, 

surrounded by wildflowers - which is excellent 

forcolias collecting. Although the lodge lies 

within the Wrangell-Saint Elias National Park, it 

is private property,and no Park permit is 

required. However, permission should be 

obtained from the owners. This locality has the 

densest population ofColias krauthiikluanensis 

yet found in Alaska. 

Note: at this timeC. k. kluanensis is known in 

Alaska only from the Nabesna Road beyond mile 

28. 

MOTHS 

NORTH SLOPE 

Ivotuk Hills, near Otuk Creek, 

10-29 June (CF, KP), Aspilates 

orayerius, Hyles gallii, Acsala 

anomala. 

INTERIOR ALASKA 

Hyles gallii was unusually 

abundant in the Fairbanks area, 

and also turned up flying in tundra 

at Twelve Mile Summit. 

SOUTH-EASTERN 

ALASKA 

Mile 41 Haines Highway, at 

Alaska - British Columbia border 

station, 29 May (KP), Smerinthus 

cerisyi. 

BUTTERFLIES 

NORTH SLOPE 

Franklin Bluffs vicinity, Dalton 

Highway mile 383,30 June (JZ), 

additional species (see 1991 

Season Summary), Pieris napi. 

Colias thula was very abundant at 

this site. Dan Creek, Dalton 

Highway mile 331,29 June (JZ), 

Papilio machaon, Pieris napi, 

Euchloe creusa, Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus, Clossiana polaris, 

Clossiana m a , Erebia rossii, 

Erebia disa, Erebiafasciata, 

Erebia lafontainei. Ice Cut, 

Dalton Highway mile 325, 29 June 

(JZ), additional species (see 1991 

Season Summary), Everes 

amyntula. Ivotuk Hills, near Otuk 

Creek, 10-29 June (CF, KP), 

Papilio machaon, Parnassius 

eversmanni, Pieris napi, Colias 

thula, Euchloe creusa, 


Agriades rusticus, Everes 

amyntula, Clossiana polaris, 

Clossiana freija, Erebia rossii, 

Erebia disa, Erebia fasciata, 

Erebia youngi, Erebia anyuica*, 

Oeneis bore, 0. polixenes. 

SOUTH-CENTRAL 

ALASKA 

Richardson Highway, 1 mile 

north of Gulkana, 23 June (JZ), 

Pyrgus centaureae, 


Colias philodice, Colias gigantea, 

Colias palmo, Euchloe creusa, 

Everes amyntula, Celastrina 

argwlus, Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus, Lycaeides idas, 

Plebejus saepiolus, Vacciniina 

optilete, Clossianafrgga, 

Clossiana freija, Clossiana 

chariclea, Phyciodes pratensis, 

Erebia discoidalis. Devil's 

Mountain Lodge, mile 42 Nabesna 

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Road, 15 July (KP), Pterourus 

glaucus, Colias philodice, Colias 

krauthii kluanensis, Colias 

gigantea, Colias palaeno, Plebejus 

saepiolus, Lycaeides idas, 

Speyeria mormonia, Proclossiana 

eunomia, Clossiana titania, 

Phyciodes pratensis. 

ALASKA RANGE 

Rainbow Ridge, Richardson 

Highway mile 207, 6 July (RP), 

Colias palaeno, Everes amyntula, 

Agriades rusticus, Proclossiana 

eunomia, Clossiana chariclea, 

Coenonympha kodiak, Oeneis 

polixenes. 

SOUTH-EASTERN 

ALASKA 

Skagway, 22 June (KP), 

Anthocharis sara. Haines 

Highway, mile 4 through mile 28, 

24-29 May (KP), Pterourus 

glaucus, Pieris napi, Anthocharis 

sara, Celastrina argiolus, 

Plebejus saepiolus, Polygonia 

faunus, Polygonia satyrus. 

Anthocharis Sara was present in 

reasonable numbers from mile 4 to 

mile 16, feeding on dandelions at 

the base of the cliffs along the east 

side of the highway. The highest 

concentration of A. Sara was found 

at mile 8.5. A Haines resident said 

that A. sara had been flying for 

about two weeks before I arrived, 

while the one specimen caught in 

Skagway appeared very fresh. 

Judging by the flowers, the season 

in Haines was a couple of weeks 

more advanced than Skagway. 

Note: The Haines Highway from mile 9.2to mile 

30.9 lies within the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle 

Preserve, and a collecting permit is required 

SOUTH-CENTRAL 

ALASKA 

Barren Islands (Ushagat and 

East Amatuli Islands), 4, 24 June, 

4 July, Pieris napi. No other 

species of butterfly was seen -- 

which often is the case on such 

remote Alaskan islands. 

*The taxon previously called 

Erebia occulta is now known to be 

Erebia anyuica. 

IDAHO, OREGON, 

WASHINGTON, 

BRITISH 

COLUMBIA 

Coordinator: Jon H. Shepard (JHS) 

Contributors: J.R Dillman (JRD), Patty Ensor 

(PE), Larry Everson (LE), Chris Guppy (CG), Paul 

C. Hammond (PCH), John Hinchliff (JH), Lloyd 

Janz (LJ), Norbert Kondla (NK), K.A. Long (RAL), 

Ellen Lewis(EL), D.V. McCorkle (DVM), W.A. Neill 

(WAN), D. Nummallee (DN), J.G. Pasko (JGP), 

W.D. Patteffion (WDP), Floyd and June Preston 

(F&JP), Robert M. Pyle (RMP), W.B. Richfield 

(WBR), Don A. Rolfs (DAK), Sigrid M. Shepard 

(SMS), Mark J. Smith (MJS), Ray Stanford 

(KES), Dennis Strenge (DS), Steve Summers 

(SS), Dan Thackaberry (DTh), U.S. National 

Forest Staff (USNFS), John Weber (JW), 

Richard Zack (RZ). 

Summary: Regarding general collecting 

conditions, 1994 sawa return to good weather 

conditionsand generally good collecting and 

observing of most Lepidoptera groups. 

MIGRANTS AND STRAYS 

The common migrant species, 

Vanessa cardui, Danaus 

plexippus, and Hyles lineata, were 

not reported at all. By contrast, 

two rarer migrants were seen in 

new or unusual areas andlor 

conditions. Vanessa virginiensis 

was collected in only the third 

county east of the Cascades, in 

Washington, at Sullivan Creek 

Road, 10 miles northeast of the 

campground, 5 September, PEND 

OREILLE (DN). This record is put 

in perspective by the fact that the 

much better collected adjacent 

part of British Columbia has 

recorded only two specimens of 

this species by 100 years of keen 

resident collecting. V. atalanta, a 

single fresh specimen was seen in 

British Columbia at Sproule Creek, 

near Nelson, 19 April, Central 

Kootenay (JHS). This represents 

the first evidence that V. atalanta 

Since noneof theseare forthe current 

Season Summary year they are not 

reported here, but Ray will certainly provide 

a copy of these recordstoany interested 

BUTTERFLIES 

Icaricia shasta 

minnehaha, Highway 93, 

Willow Creek summit, 12 July, 

CUSTER County (JGP). 

Nymphalis antiopa and 

milberti Boise, 20 March, 

EARLY, Ada County (RES). 

Neominois ridingsii, Highway 

93, Willow Creek summit, 12 

July, CUSTER County (JGP). 

OREGON 

Contributow: LE, JH, PCH, EL, KAL, DVM, 

WAN, WDP, WRB, 55, DTh, USNFS. John 

Hincliff and Ray Stanford compiled more 

Oregon museum records. Museum records 

from RESfor Oregon are included in the 

Season Summary because they did not get 

into Hinchliffs Atlasof Oreaon Butterflies 

(see announcement in the NEWS #5for 

1994). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Epargyreus clams, Adrian, 

1 mile north of Snake River, 25 

May 1974, MALHEUR County, 

C. Brady (RES). Thorybes 

pylades, Big Summit Prairie, 

mid June, CROOK County 

(EL). Pyrgus communis, north 

of Enterprise, 21 July, 

WALLOWA County (WDP). H. 

ericetorum, Jct. Highway 26 & 

19, John Day River, 4 June, 

GRANT County (WAN). 

Adrian, 1 July 1957, W. 

Chatterton, MALHEUR (RES). 

Polites sonora sonora, Grant's 

Pass, 11 June 1993, 

JOSEPHINE (WBR). Ochlodes 

sylvanoides, Highway 20, 7 

miles northeast of Juntura, 13 

July 1976, R.W. Jue, MALHEUR 

(RES). Euphyes vestris 

vestris, Susan Creek State 

Park, 27 June, DOUGLAS 

County (DTh). Olalla Creek, 

28 June, LINCOLN County 

(DVM). Papilio machuon 

oregonius, Jackass Creek, 2 

September, GRANT County, 

(DTh). Pontia beckerii, Mt. 

Hood, near Cairn Basin, 6 July 

1992, HOOD RIVER County (LE). 

Pontia protodice, Highway 20, 7 

miles east-northeast Juntura, 13 

July 1976, R.W. Jue, MALHEUR 

(RES). P. occidentalis, Miller L. 

Ridge, 10 August, JOSEPHINE 

County (DVM). Pieris napi 

marginalis, Hortense Lake, mid- 

July, DESCHUTES County (EL). 

Euchloe hyantis lotta, Redmond, 

16 April, DESCHUTES County 

(EL). Colias alexandra 

edwardsii, Mt. Hood, Summit 

Meadows, June 1895, 

CLACKAMAS County, J.E. Cottle 

(RES) [Coordinators note: This 

may be Colias occidentalis]. S. 

saepium, Lookout Mountain, 3 

August, HOOD RIVER County 

(LE). C. dumetorum oregonensis, 

Indian Ford Creek Campground, 5 

May, DESCHUTES County (SS). 

Strymon melinus atrofasciatus, 

Lobster Creek near the Rogue 

River, 14 May, CURRY(RAL). 

Everes amyntula, Indian Ford 

Creek Campground, 5 May, 

DESCHUTES County (SS). Floras 

Creek Road bridge, 31 July, 

CURRY County (RAL). 

Charidryas homnni, Mt. Hood, 

Umbrella Falls, 7 July, HOOD 

RIVER County (LE). Polygonia 

satyrus, Lower Bridge, Metolius 

River, 30 May, JEFFERSON County 

(DTh). Polygonia progne silenus, 

Meadow Creek, Starkey 

Experimental Forest, 12 May, 

UNION County (USNFS). Oeneis 

nevadensis, Sixes River, 23 July, 

CURRY County (RAL). 

MOTHS 

Summary: Paul Hammond reports455 county 

recordsfor Noctuidsalone taken by recent U.5. 

National Forest staff survey of moths in Oregon 

National Forest areas, mostly in Linn and 

Jefferson counties. Last years' records were 

mostly in Union and Umatilla counties. 

WASHINGTON 

Contributors: JRD, PE, DN, F&JP, DAR DS, 

JHS, SMS& JW. REScontributed several older 

museum records but those will show up in 

Hinchliffs upcoming Atlas of Washington 

Butterflies(a companion to the Oregon Atlas). 

JRD, PE, D5, JHS, & RZare working on a survey 

of the Hanford Reserve Lands in Benton County. 

Don Rolfs observed good varietyand numbers of 

butterfly species in Chelan and Douglas 

Counties. RMP, JHS, & SMS searched hard in 

Pend Oreille, Spokane and Whitman counties for 

7hymelicuslineola butto no avail. Pyle and the 

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Jun

Shepards'are ina dead heatfora new 

Washington state record! Maybe someone else 

can scope both of us! John Weber (JW) reports 

that butterflies wereabundantat Mount Rainier 

and photography wasgood. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Hesperiajuba, Horn Rapids 

Road, southern edge of Hanford 

Reservoir, 22 May, BENTON 

County (JRD). Hesperia mada, 

Rattlesnake Mountain, ALE, 7 May, 

BENTON County (DS). 4ycaena 

nivalis, Mt. Townsend trail, 10 

August, JEFFERSON County 

(FWP). Mitoura spinetorum, 3.5 

miles northwest of Willard, 14 

August, SKAMANIA County (DN). 

Everes amyntula, Snively Canyon, 

ALE, 22 April, BENTON County 

(DS). Euphilotes enoptes, 4 miles 

south of Keller Feny, Highway 21, 

19 June, LINCOLN County (JHS, 

SMS). Plebejus icarioides, Snively 

Canyon, ALE, 22 April, BENTON 

County (DS). Polygonia faunus 

rusticus, Mt. Townsend trail, 10 

August, JEFFERSON County 

(FW) . Cercyonis pegala ariane , 

Forest Road 27,3.5 miles west of 

Highway 101,16 August, 

JEFFERSON County (FW). 

Cercyonis oetus oetus, Rattlesnake 

Mountain, ALE, 8 July, BENTON 

County (DS). 

BRITISH 

COLUMBIA 

Contributom: CG, LJ, NK, JHS, SMS. 

Summary: Collecting conditions were good 

throughout the summer. Chris Guppy is 

beginning a survey of moths of the Quesnel area 

with over 200 species recorded the first year, a 

good number for such a northern locality. 

Norbert Kondla contributed many McBride area 

district records. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Thorybes pylades, McBride, 29 

May, DISTRICT (NK). Thymelicus 

lineola, Sproule Creek, near 

Nelson, 13 July, REGION (JHS), 

the only other specimen, seen 

several years ago, was a radiator 

stun in Nelson. This was a fresh 

specimen, and the species should 

show up south of the Border any 

time as it has moved down from 

Revelstoke in the last 15 years. 

Hesperia juba, Battle Creek Road, 

East Cache Creek, 22 May, 

DISTRICT (NK). Hesperia 

nevada, Battle Creek Road, East 

Cache Creek, 22 May, DISTRICT 

(NK). Louis Lake northeast of 

Kamloops, 22 May, DISTRICT 

(NK). Amblyscirtes uialis, 

junction of Highway 5 and 

Blackwater Road, 14 May, 

DISTRICT (NK). Parnassius 

phoebus smintheus, McBride Peak, 

31 July, DISTRICT (NK). 

Pterourus glaucus canadensis, 

McBride, 20 May, DISTRICT (NK). 

Pieris rapae, Prince George, 22 

April, DISTRICT (NK); McBride, 29 

May, DISTRICT (NK). Euchloe 

hyantis, Louis Lake northeast of 

Kamloops, 14 May, DISTRICT 

(NK). Colias philodice, McBride, 

12 May, DISTRICT (NK). M. 

spinetorum, Jackman Flats, near 

Valemont, 23 May, DISTRICT and 

NORTH (NK). Callophrys 

sherdanii, Karnloops, 23 May, 

DISTRICT (NK). Incisalia 

augustinus, near Tete Jeune 

Cache, 1 May, DISTRICT (NK). 

Incisalia polios, Jackman Flats, 

near Valemont, 23 May, DISTRICT 

(NK). Incisalia eryphon, McBride, 

1 May, DISTRICT (NK). Everes 

amyntula, McBride, 12 May, 

DISTRICT (NK). C. argiolus, 

Highway 16 at Milk River, 26 April, 

DISTRICT (NK). Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus, McBride, 29 May, 

DISTRICT (NK). Lycaeides idas 

scudderi, McBride Peak, 31 July, 

DISTRICT (NK). Plebejus 

saepiolus, McBride, 6 June, 

DISTRICT(NK). Speyeria cybele 

leto, Sproule Creek, 1 August, 

PERFECT GYNANDROMORPH 

(SMS and JHS). Speyeria atlantis 

electa, Small River, Robson Valley, 

23 June, DISTRICT (NK). 

Speyeria hydaspe, McBride, 12 

July, DISTRICT (NK). Polygonia 

satyrus, Highway 16 at Milk River, 

26 April, DISTRICT (NK). P. 

zephrus, McBride, 1 May, 

DISTRICT (NK). P. oreas, Louis 

Lake northeast of Kamloops, 22 

May, DISTRICT (NK). Polygonia 

progne, Highway 16 at Milk River, 

26 April, DISTRICT (NK). 

Nymphalis antiopa, Highway 16 at 

Milk River, 26 April, DISTRICT 

(NK). N. vaualbum, Highway 16 

at Milk River, 26 April, DISTRICT 

(NK). Basilarchia arthemis, 

McBride, 11 June, DISTRICT (NK). 

Cercyonis sthenele, Tranquille, 

near Kamloops, 6 July, 

DISTRICT(NK). 

MOTHS 

Arctia caja, Cranbrook, no 

date given, DISTRICT (LJ). 

ARIZONA, 

CALIFORNIA, 

NEVADA 

Coordinator: Robert L. Langston (KLL), 

Contributors: Ed Ballard (EB), Jim F: Brock 

(JPB), Ken Davenport (KD), John F. Emmel 

(JFE), Clifford D. Ferris (CDF), Kon H. Leuschner 

(RHL), Lauritz Muehlbach (LM), Scott North 

(SN), Jerry A. Powell (JAY), Kelly M. Kichers 

(KMK), Arthur M. Shapiro (AMS), Oakley 

Shields (OS), W.P. 5ochor (WPS), Ray E. 

Stanford (RES) and John 0. Vernon (JBV). 

Note: The moth species have each Family name 

noted, and are in the taxa and sequenceof K.W. 

Hodges, eta/., 1953. The butterfly species follow 

C.D. Ferris, 1959. 

ARIZONA 

Contributon: JPB, KD, CDF, LM and KE5. 

Summary: Included are 24 county records for 

butterfly species. Only four moth species were 

reported, one a county record, the others not 

new fortheir locales. 

After a mild winter in Chino Valley, Yavapai 

County, spring got off to a good start, excessive 

heat in early summer, late summer with 

monsoon rains, and the first general killing frost 

by mid-October (LM). North of Alpine, Apache 

County on 10 August, there was only a window of 

good weather between thetime thatthe heavy 

morning dew evaporated and the clouds moved 

in fortheearly afternoon storm (CDF). in 

Cochise County, the Chiricahua Mountains fire 

consumed 23,000 acres by mid-July and took 

out the area from Barfoot Park almost to 

Rustler Park, then down in elevation to Kucker 

Canyon, the lake just above the Arizona Museum 

of Natural History Research Station, Onion 

Saddle and into Pinery Canyon (CDF). By late 

July, Cave Creekand South Fork werestill 

running black with debris (CDF). 

MOTHS 

SPHINGIDAE - Hemaris 

diffinis, Chino Valley, Yavapai 

County, 29 to 30 March, and on 31 

March ovipositing on coral berry 

(Symphoricarpus orbiculatus) 

(LM). Proserpinus vega, Greens 

Peak Road, 3 miles south of US 60, 

APACHE County, 24 July 

(JPB)(This is the seventh Arizona 

county for this seldom reported 

day-flier). 

PERICOPINAE - Gnophaela 

latipennis, Escudilla Mountain 

north of Alpine, Apache County, 

10 August (CDF). NOCTUIDAE - 

Catocala hernia, Chino Valley, 

appeared at nearly their usual time 

of 23 to 24 September (LM). 


Phoebis philea, lower Madera 

Canyon, Pima County, one white 

female, 7 August (KD). 

Libytheana carinenta larvata: US 

60 at Gila - Navajo County line, 

Carrizo Creek, 5,050 ft, NAVAJO 

County, 9 October, hundreds on 

roadside and stream bed flowers! 

(RES); many at Clifton, 3,600 ft, 

and hundreds along Highway 78, 

5,800 to 6,000 ft at the New 

Mexico state line, Greenlee 

County, 10 October (RES); Scarce 

and late in Chino Valley, Yavapai 

County, 10 to 13 October (LM). 

Vanessa cardui: Altogether absent 

during the spring in Chino Valley, 

only a few worn and frayed in 

September (LM). Danaus 

plexippus: The migration (such as 

it was) in Chino Valley was 5 

September (later than usual) to 6 

October, with no more than 15 

observed (LM). Last instar larvae 

on Asclepias tuberosa, NEW 

HOST, Canelo, Santa Cruz County, 

26 July (JPB). Danaus gilippus 

strigosus: Appeared on 17 April, 

unusually early for Chino Valley, as 

generally common during the 

summer (LM). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Staphylus ceos, Hassayampa 

River, south of Wickenburg, 

MARICOPA County, 23 April (KD). 

Hesperopsis gracielae, vicinity of 

Havasu City, MOJAVE County (R.P. 

Meyerfide KD). Pyrgus philetas 

and Hylephila phyleus, Clifton, 

3,600 ft, both new for GREENLEE 

County, 10 October (RES). 

Oarisma garita last instar larva on 

Muhlenbergia rigens 7 June, 

Greens Peak Road, 3 miles south of 

US 60, Apache County, adult 

emerged 1 July (JPB). 

Amblyscirtes python, Salt River 

Canyon, GILA County, June 1902 

(O.C. Poling) - in Field Museum 

of Natural History, Chicago, one 

male det RES. Heraclides 

cresphontes: Oak Creek Canyon, 

COCONINO County, 1972 (A1 

Rubbertfide KD); common, No 

Name Lake, LA PAZ County, 1 to 6 

June 1992 (S.M. Nelsonfide RES); 

Clifton, 3,600 ft, GREENLEE 


Papilio multicaudatus: Show Low, 

APACHE County, 1968 (S.S. 

McKownfide RES); showed its 


ivoltine nature in Chino Valley, 

Yavapai County, small males by 31 

March, then 12 to 18 April, 

reappearing all large 10 to 18 

September (LM). Pieris rapae, 

Snowflake, 5,582 ft, NAVAJO 

County, 30 September (RES), with 

Colias eurytheme confirmed in all 

Arizona counties (RES). Eurema 

dina westwoodi, Red Rock 

Canyon near Patagonia, Santa 

Cruz County, 15 August (JPB). 

Fixsenia ontario ilavia, roadside 

stop in Molino Basin, PIMA 

County, 12 March 1983 (J.K. 

Adamsfide RES). Hemiargus 

ceraunus gyas, Clifton, 3,600 ft, 

GREENLEE County, 10 October 

(RES). Agraulis vanillae 

incamta, Florence Junction, 

PINAL County, 9 May 1974 (G.S. 

Forbesfide RES). Euptoieta 

claudia, Ehrenberg, 450 ft, LA PAZ 

County, 12 October 1977 (G.S. 

Forbesfide RES). Speyeria 

atlantis nausicaa and Speyeria 

morrnonia luski, Escudilla 

Mountain, north of Alpine, Apache 

County, 10 August (CDF). 

Chlosyne californica, Palm 

Canyon, Kofa Mountains, YUMA 

County, 31 August 1986, Erin 

McKown (fide S.S. McKown, RES). 

Chlosyne lacinia crocale, US 601 

70 at PINALI Gila county line, 

4,600 ft, GILA County, 9 October 

(RES). Dymasia dymas chara, 

Clifton, 3,600 ft, GREENLEE 


Nymphalis antiopa: Yuma, YUMA 

County, 23 March 1962 (W.A. 

Hedgesfide RES); No Name Lake, 

1 June 1992 and Bill Williams 

River Delta, 22 March 1994, both 

LA PAZ County (S.M. Nelsonfide 

RES). Vanessa virginiensis and 

Junonia coenia, Yuma, YUMA 

County, both 16 September 1961 

(W.J. Hedgesfide RES). Junonia 

coenia and Junonia nigrosuffusa 

sympatric at Hassayampa River 

Preserve below Wickenburg, 

Maricopa County, 14 May (LM). 

Basilarchia astyanax arizonensis, 

one fresh male, Bill Williams River 

Delta, LA PAZ County, 22 March, 

EARLY (S.M. Nelsonfide RES). 

Anaea andria, one fresh male on 

cottonwood tree trunk, Gila River 

at Safford, 2,920 ft, GRAHAM 


Cercyonis oetus charon, Escudilla 

Mountain north of Alpine, Apache 

County, worn by 10 August 

(CDF)(the only Satyridae 

reported). 

CALIFORNIA 

Contributo~: EB, KD, JFE, RLL, KHL, SN, JA6 

KMR AM5, 05, WP5and RE5. Summary: 

Included are 36 county and two state records 

for butterfly species. Only two moth species 

weredetermined ascounty records, with 

northerjy and south-easterly range extensions. 

Mild January and early Februaryat Jerseydale, 

Mariposa County, with 13 inches of snow in 

February (05). Bay Area mild and dry most of 

January and much of February (RLL). A very dry 

winter with minimal snow pack which melted 

early, but not as early as 1992 (AM5). Warmish 

March and April, but May unseasonably cool 

(05). 5pring was cool with several late storms 

delaying flight seasons (AMS). Bay Area with 

unusually late rains in May with spring-flyers 

still observedforthe Xerces counts in late June 

(RLL). In Mariposa County, hot in mid-August, 

and rained two inches in early October (05) 

Summer was relatively cool, but very dry; no 

measurable summer rain in the high country, but 

season ended veryearly with snow 12,28 

September, 14October, and heavy snow by6 

November (AMS). Low altitude rains began 4 

October in northern California, but commenced 

in earnest4 November, and continued many 

days until year's end (RLL). Rain and snow in 

Mariposa County Novemberand December (05). 

MOTHS 

ETHMIINAE - Ethmia tricula 

associated with Phacelia 

tanacetifolia, above Aguanga, 

2,500 ft, Riverside County, 11 April 

(RHL). 

PLUTELLIDAE - Plutella 

xylostella, Milagra Ridge, Pacifica, 

San Mateo County, 14 April (RLL). 

TORTRICIDAE - Rhyacionia 

zozana, Caliente Creek, 1,600 ft, 2 

miles east of Caliente, Kern 

County, 21 May (KMR). 

PYRALIDAE - Uresiphita 

reversalis, hill above Tiburon, 25 

May, larvae defoliating about ten 

percent of the French Broom in 

this and other parts of Marin 

County (RLL). Pyrausta 

rubricalis, Kensington, Contra 

Costa County, 7, 28 September, 9, 

11 October (RLL). Pyrausta 

subsequalis petaluma, El Cerrito 

hills, Contra Costa County, 10 

January, EARLY (RLL). Galleria 

mellonella and Achroia grisella 

with long adult emergence, 12 

January to 25 November, 

Kensington, Contra Costa County, 

honeybee colony in chimney 

(RLL). Salebriacus odiosellus, 

Tom's Place, 7,200 ft, Mono 

County, 3 August (KMR). 

GEOMETRIDAE - 

Drepanulatrix bifihta ruthiaria, 

Rock Creek Road, 8,880 ft, Mono 

County, 3 August (KMR). Pero 

occidentalis canastra, Pinyon 

Crest, 4,200 ft, Riverside County, 

17 April (RHL). Aethaloida 

packardaria, 1-80 Gold Run rest 

area, 3,300 ft, Placer County, 28 

August (RLL). Nepytia jubata, 

Mammoth rest area, 7,650 ft, 

Highway 395, Mono County, 4 

August (KMR). Cheteoscelis 

bistriaria, Lake of the Woods, 

5,200 ft, Kern County (KMR). 


senta, Mitchell Canyon, Mount 

Diablo, Contra Costa County, 17 

June (RLL). 

ARCTIIDAE - Apantesis 

proxima, Brooks Island, CONTRA 

COSTA County and NORTH, 9 to 

11 September (JAP). 

NOCTUIDAE - Hypena 

humuli, Kern River Canyon at 

2,200 ft, Kern County, 5 March 

(KMR). Apamea spaldingi, 

Discestra hamata, and Admetovis 

oxymorus, Mount Pinos Highway, 

7,480 ft, Kern County, 3 July 

(KMR). Aseptis binotata, 

Kensington, 7 June (RLL). Aseptis 

cara, three species of 

Oncocnemis, plus 13 other 

noctuid species, Rock Creek Road, 

8,880 ft, Mono County, 3 August 

(KMR). Annaphila danistica, 

Democrat Hot Springs, 2,200 ft, 

Kern River Canyon, Kern County, 

29 March (RHL). Annaphila 

divinula, Santa Catalina Island, 

Los Angeles County, 7 April - 

smallest member of the genus on 

the island! (RHL). Heliothodes 

diminutiva, Democrat Hot 

Springs, 29 March (RHL). Agrotis 

gravis, Kern National Wildlife 

Refuge, 220 ft, KERN County, far 

SOUTH, INLAND (KMR)- 

important range extension, as 

known only on beach areas north 

of San Francisco (RHL). Emoa 

acornis alko, Tom's Place, 7,200 ft, 

Mono County, 3 August and Mount 

Pinos, 7,480 ft, Kern County, 4 

September (KMR). Emoa 

obeliscoides, Mount Pinos Road at 

6.400 ft. Kern County, 4 

~k~tember found in 

Hualavai Mountains, 

~rizona)(KM~). Ufeus plicatus 

ssp., Caliente Creek 8.6 miles east 

of Caliente, 1,960 ft, Kern County, 

back in 1990 (KMR), but now 

determined as a new unlisted 

subspecies by RHL. Schinia 

mortua, Kern National Wildlife 

Refuge, 220 ft, 2 September 

(KMR). 


Nymphalis californica: One in 

Davis, Yolo County (unusual), 8 

March (AMS); worn hibernants, 

Morrison Canyon, Alameda 

County, 12 March (RLL); frequent 

migrations at Jerseydale, Mariposa 

County, heading generally 

southeast, 1 March to April 19, 

only singles 21 May, 18 June and 

10, 18, 28 October (0s); peak 

flight near Darrah, 3,146 ft, 

Mariposa County on 15 March, 

with up to 90 seen in 20 minutes 

in 120 feet (0s); very low all year 

except in highest parts of north 

Coast Range and the Yolla Bollys - 

saw hardly any in the Sierra 

Nevada (AMS). Vanessa cardui: 

First for Davis, Yolo County, 25 

March, and present in very low 

numbers all season (AMS); Red 

Bluff, Tehama County, 6 June 

(only one fresh at mud seen all 

year)(OS). Danaus plescippus: 

Four actively nectaring on 

eucalypts, Albany Hill, Alameda 

County, 2 January, EARLY (RLL); 

winter aggregation at Pinole Point, 

Contra Costa County, mostly 

dispersed by 1 March, only 15 

observed (RLL); very scarce at 

Jerseydale all year, one worn, 14 

March, one on 15 July, three fresh 

adults and one fifth instar larva on 

milkweed 24 August and one on 26 

October (0s); About 100 seen this 

year with ten on 4 July (AMS); 

Kensington, Contra Costa County, 

only single-digits, mid September 

to 8 November (RLL); the number 

of butterflies heading coastwise 

this fall was about twice 1993 

(AMS). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Thorybes pylades, See 

Canyon, San Luis Obispo County, 

21 March EARLY, 4 April common 

(KD). Thorybes mesicanus 

blanco (ventral hind wing white, 

little or no brown striping), Mulky 

Meadows, 9,400 ft, west of Lone 

Pine, INYO County, SOUTH and 

WEST, many found 8,23 June 

(EB). Two odd "strays" of Erynnis 

propertius from normal foothill 

habitat, Davis, Yolo County, 2 

March, and Suisun Marsh, Solano 

County, 1 April (AMS). Pyrgus 

communis/ Pyrgus a1 bescens 

contact zone on both sides of Kern1 

Tulare County line along Highway 

43,4 November (KD- all det by 

Julian Donahue) -both species 

now verified from Tulare County; 

only one previous Pyrgus 

communis record for Kern County 

(KD). Heliopetes ericetorum, 

Gates Canyon, Solano County, 30 

March, EARLY for Northern 

California (AMS). Celotes nessus, 

ravine near Colorado River bridge 

west of Topock (Mohave County, 

Arizona), SAN BERNARDINO 

County and STATE, 27 May 1973 

(KD). Hesperia juba, Sespe Creek, 

Rose Valley (north-northeast of 

Ojai), VENTURA County, 2 August 

(EB). Ochlodes sykanoides, 

Castle peak at 8,800 ft, HIGH, 

Nevada County, 12 August, EARLY 

for high (AMS). Ochlodes 

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agricola, Lookout, MODOC 

County, June circa 1896 (J.E. 

Cottlefide RES). E! melane, 5 

miles northeast of Arcata, 300 ft, 

HUMBOLDT County, 25 

September (SN). Parnassius 

clodius near baldur, north of Tiger 

Flat Campground at crest of 

Greenhorn Mountains, KERN 

County, 24 June 1961 (RES)(On 

county line with Tulare -where 

Parnassius clodius was recorded 

by KD in the 1980's. Heraclides 

cresphontes: Garden Grove, 

ORANGE County and NORTH for 

coastal California, one 24 July, one 

29 August (WPS); Several at 

Rancho Santa Fe, San Diego 

County, 14 to 15 April, yard and 

nearby orange groves (RES). 

Papilio eurymedon: Brawley, 

IMPERZAL County, 26 June 1967, 

one worn male (S.S. McKownjXe 

RES); Ova on Prunus emarginata 

and Rhamnus rubra, Fallen Leaf 

Lake, 6,400 ft, El Dorado County, 

30 June (JFE). New colonies of 

Pieris napi venosa in See Canyon 

and Prefumo Canyon, San Luis 

Obispo County, 21 March, 4 April 

(KD). Anthocharis Sara 

"gunderi", Santa Catalina Island, 

Los Angeles County, 7 April (RHL, 

Jeff Slotten). Paramidea 

lanceolata, SAN FRANCISCO City 

and County, 1 May 1928 (C.A. Hill 

fide RES)(None in San Francisco 

in recent years (RLL)] . Colias 

philodice eriphyle stray, Meiss 

Lake, 8,700 ft, HIGH, Alpine 

County, 26 July (AMS). Zerene 

eurydice: Mather, TUOLUMNE 

County, September circa 1896 

(J.E. Cottleme RES); Aptos, 

SANTA CRUZ County, 18 July 

1992,lO October 1992 (K.W. Miller 

fide RES); YUBA County, data on 

request (C. Hageman). Lycaena 

phlaeas ssp., Virginia Lakes, 

10,000 ft, Mono County, 2 July, 

EARLY for California Lycaena 

phlaeas (JFE). &ycaena cuprea, 

Yosemite Valley, MARIPOSA 

County, June circa 1896 (J.E. 

Cottlejide RES). Gaddes 

xanthoides: Dog Bar Road south of 

Grass Valley, Nevada County, 15 

July 1990 (C. Hageman)[earlier 

date than those from Washington 

(AMS) in 1991 Season Summary]; 

Cottonwood Creek and Highway 

166,4 June - second locale for 

Santa Barbara County (KD). 

Gaeides gorgon, Tar Gap Road, 

KINGS County, common 12 May 

(KD). Chalceria rubida 

monachensis associated with 

Rumex salicgolius, Coyote Creek, 

10,000 ft, west of Bishop, Inyo 

County, 20 July (JFE, G. Pratt). 

Atlides halesus estesi ova on 

Phoradendron juniperinum 

parasitic on Juniperus 

occidentalis, north base, 

Observation Peak, 6,200 ft, HIGH, 

Lassen County, 17 July (JFE, G. 

Pratt). Satyrium auretorum and 

first time for Satyrium tetra, 

Washington, 2,650 ft, Nevada 

County, 17 June (AMS). Mitoura 

johnsoni, north Trinity Mountain, 

5,200 ft., HUMBOLDT County, 8 

June (SN). Mitoura thornei, Little 

Cedar Canyon east of Lower Otay 

Lake, San Diego County, 13 June, 

LATE (RLL). A stray female 

Incisalia eryphon, Kensington, 13 

April (RLL), and several at San 

Pablo Reservoir associated with 

Monterey Pines, 18 April (JAP), 

both CONTRA COSTA County. 

Strymon avalona, Santa Catalina 

Island, Los Angeles County, 7 April 

(RHL, J. Slotten). New colony of 

Philotes sonorensis, 0.8 mile east 

of Chimney Creek Camp, Tulare 

County and EAST for the Sierra 

part of California, 13 April (KD). 

Euphilotes bernardino 

bernardino, Mountain Springs, 

2,292 ft, IMPERIAL County, 24 

June 1961 (R.W.' Breedlovefide 

RES). Euphilotes enoptes 

dammersi, In-KO-Pah Gorge, 2,290 

ft, IMPERIAL County, 29 

September 1967 (F.T. Thornefide 

RES). Glaucopsyche lygdamus 

incognita, Cottonwood Pass, KERN 

County, 12 May - bold black 

spots! - not Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus australis as known from 

Kern County and to the south 

(KD). Apodemia m om, Novato, 

MARIN County, 14 August 1935, in 

Field Museum of Natural History, 

Chicago w e RES) [No recent 

examples from Marin (RLL)] . 

Apodemia palmerii, Edwards Air 

Force Base under permit, KERN 

County, data to be published via 

government channels Vide KD). 

Speyeria coronis: Gates Canyon, 

Solano County, 18 May, confirming 

a population here and Suisun 

Marsh, Solano County, 3 October, 

second in 23 years (AMS); one 

fresh female, SAN FRANCISCO 

City and County, June 1896 (J.E. 

Cottlefide RES). Speyeria egleis, 

Plaskett Meadows, GLENN County, 

3 July 1970 (S.K. Dvorakfide 

RES). Speyeria adiaste atossa, 

two fresh males, Cuyama Peak, 

5,875 ft, SANTA BARBARA 

County, 15 June 1923 (J.D. 

Gunder) - in San Diego Museum 

of Natural History, det RES. 

Speyeria atlantis irene, Mulky 

Meadows, 9,400 ft, west of Lone 

Pine, INYO County, SOUTH and 

EAST, 6 to 14 July (EB). Speyeria 

momnia arge, near Meiss Lake, 

Carson Pass, Alpine County, 19 

June, EARLY (AMS). Thessalia 

leanira, Gates Canyon, 18 May, 

first here in 21 years (AMS); and 

Zenia Bluffs northeast of 

Alderpoint, 20 May (SN)- second 

record for Humboldt County. 

Phyciodes dark phenotype near 

typical pulchella, Coyote Creek, 

10,000 ft, HIGH, west of Bishop, 

Inyo County, 20 July (JFE, G. 

Pratt) -( = pratensis, = 

campestris) - see J. Scott, 1994, 

Papilio No. 7, for revision of 

Phyciodes (JFE). Phyciodes orseis 

herlani, Eagle Meadow Road near 

Niagara Creek, 3 miles south of 

Sonora Pass Road, 13 July - one 

male among hordes of Phyciodes 

pratensis montana (KD)- 

second locality for Phyciodes 

orseis herlani in Tuolumde 

County, the first was by J.A. Scott, 

1984 (RLL). Euphydryas 

chalcedona larvae on Ceanothus 

velutinus, NEW HOST, Groves 

Prairie Road, HUMBOLDT County, 

10 May (SN)- many reared to 

adults on Ceanothus velutinus and 

photos at habitat (SN). Polygonia 

faunus rusticus, YUBA County, 

data on request (C. Hegemanfide 

RES). Aglais milberti: Unusually 

numerous and widespread in early 

spring - Yolo County, 2,12 March, 

Sacramento County, 4 March, 28 

May, Placer County, 9 March, Lake 

County, 27 March (AMS); Mount 

Pinos, VENTURA County, 15 June 

1957 (N.L. LaDuefide RES); One 

male on 17 April, first record for 

Jerseydale, ~ ari~osa County (0s). 

Vanessa virginiensis and Vanessa 

atalanta rubria, Brawley, 15 

September 1961, both "new" for 

IMPERIAL County (W.A. Hedges 

fide RES). Coenonympha 

cal$omia, canyon west of 

Kennedy Meadows, 6,700 ft, HIGH, 

Tulare County, 18 June (JFE, 

Bruce Griffin). Cercyonis meadii 

(!!), Idyllwild, RIVERSIDE County 

and STATE, 28 June 1985 (S.S. 

McKown) - one fresh female ( 

reared/escaped - RES has seen 

and believes). 

Old records from just east of 

the San Diego County line: 

Pholisora catullus, Euchloe 

hyantis lotta, Paramidea 

lanceolata australis, Callophqs 

perplexa, Mitoura loki, Incisalia 

augustinus iroides, Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus australis and 

Nymphalis calgonzica, In-KO-Pah 

Gorge, 2,100 to 2,200 ft, canyons 

north of Desert View Tower, 26 

March 1960, all eight new for 

IMPERIAL County (K.C. Hughes, 

RES). 

NEVADA 

Contributors: RLL, RE5 and JBV. 

Summary: With so few reports, thereare only 

two county records for butterfly species. 

Nothing new among the moths. 

MOTHS 

PYRALIDAE - Pseudoschinia 

elautalis, 1-80 Fernley Rest Area, 

Washoe County, 27 August (RLL). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Semiothisa 

excurvata, 1-80 Fernley Rest Area, 

Washoe County, 27 August (RLL). 

NOCTUIDAE - Schinia 

walsinghamiles and S. separata, 

1-80 Fernley Rest Area, Washoe 

County, 27 August (RLL). 


Colias eurytheme, Lovelock, 

3,900 ft, Pershing County, many 

flying northeast in late afternoon, 

16 August, and hundreds flying 

northeast (away from the sun) 

until sunset 27 August (RLL) - 

hot, no wind either day. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Erynnis persius fredericki, 

Kyle Canyon, Spring Pange, 

CLARK County, 3 June 1984 (S.S. 

McKown) - one male examined 

with microscope by SSM and WS. 

Hesperopsk libya lena, 36.8 miles 

south of Gerlach, Washoe County, 

8 June (JBV). Hesperia lindseyi, 

26 to 31 miles north of Gerlach, 8 

June (JBV). Known only in 

Washoe County in Nevada. Colias 

alexandra edwardsii, 26 to 34 

miles north of Gerlach, 8 June 

(JBV). One male Eurema nicippe, 

Silver Peak Mountains, 13 miles 

south of Silverpeak, Esmeralda 

County, 11 May (JBV) -rare in 

Great Basin habitat and this far 

north. Satyrium californicum 

cygnus, Leadville Canyon, 31 to 34 

miles north of Gerlach, Washoe 

County, 8 June (JBV). Euphilotes 

enoptes langstoni, one fresh 

female (confirmed RLL), Silver 

Peak Mountains, 13 miles south of 

Silverpeak, 11 May - new for 

ESMERALDA County at subspecies 

level (JBV). 

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ALBERTA, 

MONTANA, 

WYOMING, UTAH, 

COLORADO, NEW 

MEXICO 

Coordinator: Kay E. Stanford (RES) 21 

January 1995 

Assistants: Katharine A. Stanford (KAS), 

Paul Opler (PAO) and Andrew D. Warren (ADW) 

Contributors: John Acorn (JA), James Adams 

(JKA), GeorgeT. Austin (GTA), Don Bowman 

(DEB), University a'f Northern Colorado Museum 

(UNC), Steve Cary(5JC), Neil Dankert (NED) 

Terhune 5. Dickel (TSD),Thomas C. Emmel (TCE), 

Clifford D. Ferris (CDF), Field Museum of Natural 

History, Chicago, Illinois (Florida Museum of 

Natural History). Mike Fisher (M5F), Clyde F. 

Gillette (CFG), Chuck Harpand his family (CEH), 

Jack Harry (JLH), Richard Holland (KWH), Joel 

M. Johnson (JMJ), Steve Kohler (SJK), Boris 

Kondratieff (BCK), Bob Langston (RLL), Dave 

Leatherman (DL), Ron Leuschner (KHL), Marilyn 

Lutzand her family (ML), Gerald McWilliams 

(GMc), Gary Marrone (GMM), Clifford A. Miles 

(CAM), Bob Mower (RCM), Mark Nelson (SMN), 

John Nordin (JSN), Paul Opler (PAO), Bill 

Patte~on (WDP), Levi Phillips (WLP), Floyd and 

June Preston (F&JP), James A. Scott (JAS), 

hra 5imonson (SS), Charles Slater (CPS), 

Donnette Smith (DS), Ray E. Stanford (RES), 

George 5tephens (GMS), Steve Sommerfeld 

(SWS), Ken Tidwell (KBT), Anita Vasquez (AV), 

John Vernon (JBV), Andy Warren (ADW), Byron 

Weber (BW), Wayne Whaley (WHW), Ernest 

Williams (EHW), Brigham Young University 

(BYU). 

Summary: Total of 47contributors, 

surpassing the previous high of 44 in 1980, and 

thezone 3 high of 44 in 1991; perhapsthe 

highestforany zone in any year! JLH, PAO, WDP, 

RE5, and ADW each reported from four Zone 4 

States in 1994. CDF, SJK, JA5, and RE5 have 

reported each of the past 16 or more years. 

During the 16 years thiszone Summary has 

reported 399 butterfly species, 380 of them 

with new county records, from every one of our 

205 counties. In 1994there were nearly 1,000 

butterfly records received, including 566 county 

records in 147counties [Of the 566 county 

records, 199 species were involved, in 

comparison with 202 species involved in new 

county records in 19931 and 5 state records. 

rhere are now 103average butterfly species per 

county in Zone4, compared with 119 in Zone3; 

even if they accomplish nothing there [fat 

chance!] it would take usl7.5yearstocatch them 

with continuing hard workand good luck. Only 

about 200 moth records were received, including 

many state records, but as usual there are 

backlogs of material to curate and identify. 

Dedication: The 1993 Zone4Summary was 

dedicated to F. Martin Brown, whodied in May 

that year, and this one is similarly dedicated to 

J. Donald Eff, whodied in Montana just a few 

weeksago, on 6 December 1994. Collections from 

both lepidopterists are preserved at the 

University of Colorado in Boulder. The yearfor all 

records in the Summary is 1994, unless another 

year is cited. 

Contributor: JA. 

ALBERTA 

Note: The following comments are abstracted 

from the Fourth of July Butterfly Count reports 

(XerceslNABA) for 1993and 1994. Weather was 

variable, but included one count with 6 0 mph 

windsand only a few butterfiiesfound taking 

shelter! No moths were reported. Apparently 

new from the Lethbridgearea of south-central 

Alberta were Thymelicus lineola, Plebejus idas, 

Phyciodes batesii, and Coenonympha tullla 

inornaca, Plebejus idas would be new from southcentral 

Alberta, so I will waitto plot an Atlasdot 

there until the identification is confirmed by JA. I 

also understand that his Alberta Butterflies 

book is now available. 

Coordinator: SJK 

MONTANA 

Contributors: CEH, JLH, 5JK, PAO, WDP, AV, 

JBV, ADW, BW. 

Summary: This total of 9 beats the previous 

high of 8 in 1984, exceptthat13 [including family 

members and guests] were listed in 1982; 7 

actually sent in reports that year. A hot, dry 

season followed the very cold, wet 1993, which 

produced early and poor flightsfor most species. 

Bell's Law: Average seasonsare usually the best 

ones! 

MOTHS 

No reports. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Summary: 247records came in, including 8 4 

county records for 42 species in 28 counties [46 

counties in 199311994combined]. The average 

species per county is now 80.61, or 73.67percent 

of projection. 

Note: Last year SJK sent me several 

correctionsfor my draft Montana Summary, 

which went off to the Editor on 18 January 

1994, butthechanges were not made (I'll not 

even attemptto correct the hundreds of typos 

that appeared in the printedsummaryde 

novo!). Most of Steve'schangesare included in 

the species records below, but I will take care of 

one ight here: 5JK recordsare in Montana, not 

New Mexico, while SJC recordsare theexact 

reverse; likeShakey'sdoesn3t cash checksand 

the bankdoesn't make pizza. 

Epargyreus clarus, EARLY is 

10 May 1910 (MSUISJK); Griffith 

Creek, east of Glendive, DAWSON 

County, 24 May (SJK); south rim 

of Marias River, south of Chester, 

LIBERTY County, on Astragalus, 

17 June (CEH). Thorybes 

pylades, Babb, GLACIER County, 

26 June 1958 (V. Nabokovl ADW); 

same data as Epargyreus clarus, 

LIBERTY County; 2 miles east of 

Fallon, PRAIRIE County, 

NORTHEAST, 25 May (SJK); west 

of Hysham, TREASURE County, 

26 May (SJK). Erynnis afranius, 

Griffith Creek, east of Glendive, 

DAWSON County [confirmatory], 

24 May (SJK); Big Sheep 

Mountains, 17.5 miles northwest 

of Terry, PRAIRIE County, 25 May 

(SJK). Erynnis persius, the same 

exact data, DAWSON/PRAIRIE 

counties (SJK, genitalic det); 

delete Erynnis afranius from 

SILVER BOW County - it is 

Erynnis persius (det JAS) as are 

most [maybe ALL] Erynnis 

"afranius" from western Montana, 

Idaho, Oregon, Washington, 

British Columbia, Alaska, the 

Yukon and the Northwest j 

Territories At this point, if Bums 

hasn't seen 'em, off they go! 

Pyrgus communis, Harvey Creek, 

west of Hall, GRANITE County, 2 

September (SJK); Eight-Mile 

Creek, near Florence, RAVALLI 

County, 8 September (SJK); now 

known from all but Lewis and 

Clark and Silver Bow counties. 


Boulder River Road, southwest of 

Basin, JEFFERSON County, 27 

June (SJK); roadside near east 

Butte, Sweetgrass Hills, LIBERTY 

County, 4,200 ft, 11 June (CEH). 

Oarisma garita, 6 miles south of 

Townsend, BROADWATER 

County, 29 June (SJK); Cardwell, 

JEFFERSON County, 29 June 

(SJK); same data as 


LIBERTY County (CEH). 

Thymelicus lineola, US 287, 16 

miles south of Ennis [new 

locality], on Chrysothamnus, 

Madison County, 28 July (CEH). 

Hesperiajuba, Harvey Creek, 

west of Hall, GRANITE County, 2 

September; 1 mile south of 

Helmsville, POWELL County, 6 

September; southeast of Hot 

Springs, SANDERS County, 

NORTHWEST, 1 September (all 

SJK). Hesperia uncas, hills east of 

Toston, BROADWATER County, 30 

June (SJK); Big Timber Canyon, 

Crazy Mountains, 6 miles west of 

US 191, SWEET GRASS County, 

25 July 1975 (WDP); 8 miles east 

of Power, TETON County, 2 August 

(CEH). Hesperia pahaska, delete 

from RAVALLI County (last year's 

Season Summary-it IS Hesperia 

comma) and from GLACIER 

County (earlier Summary - it is 

Hesperia nevada) and from 

CARTER County (earlier 

Summary-it is Hesperia 

comma)(SJK). Hesperia nevada, 

delete from GARFIELD County-it 

is Hesperia juba (SJK). Polites 

peckius, 3 miles west of Helena, 

LEWIS and CLARK County, 30 

June (SJK). Polites draco, LATE is 

28 August 1959 (TWDISJK). 

Polites themistocles, 6 miles south 

of Townsend, BROADWATER 

County, 29 June; Cardwell, 

JEFFERSON County, 29 June; near 

Garrison, POWELL County, 30 

June (all SJK). Polites mystic, 6 

miles south of Townsend, 

BROADWATER County, 29 June; 

Cardwell, JEFFERSON County, 29 

June; Jefferson Island, MADISON 

County, 7 July (all SJK). Polites 

sonora, 6 miles south of 

Townsend, BROADWATER County, 

29 June; Boulder River Road, 

southwest of Basin, JEFFERSON 

County, 27 June (all SJK). Anyone 

who still follows Evans (1955) in 

considering Polites mystic and 

Polites sonora to be conspecific, 

please reread the last 6 records 

before formulating your next 

question! Ochlodes sylvanoides, 

LATE is 26 September 1983 (SJK). 

Atrytonopsis hianna, a singlespecimen 

state record in 1993, was 

found in six NEW counties in 1994 

[malignant hyperplash or previous 

neglect]: 45 miles east of Miles 

City, CUSTER County, 26 May; 

Griffith Creek, east of Glendive, 

DAWSON County, 24 May; 16 

miles west of Plevna, FALLON 

County, 26 May; 2 miles east of 

Fallon, PRAIRIE County, 25 May; 

MT 261, south of Sidney, 

RICHLANDI WIBAUX County, 24 

May (all SJK); three cheers for this 

major field triumph! Amblyscirtes 

oslari, ravines north of Fort 

Benton, Marias River, CHOUTEAU 

County, dramatically 

NORTHWEST, 3,100 ft, 19 June 

(CEH); MT 261, south of Sidney, 

RICHLANDI WIBAUX County, 

NORTHEAST, 24 May (SJK); 2 

miles east of Waco, 


YELLOWSTONE County, 23 May May; 2 miles east of Hathaway, 

(SJK); another previously neglected ROSEBUD County, 26 May; near 

prairie skipper in Montana. Butte, SILVER BOW County, 28 

Megathymus streckeri leussleri, northJune; west of Hysham, TREASURE 

rim of Missouri River above Ryan County, 26 May; 2 miles east of 

Dam, 3,600 ft, CASCADE County, Waco, YELLOWSTONE County, 23 

dramatically NORTHWEST, 11 July May (all SJK). Plebejus shasta, 

(CEH). Papilio zelicaon, same data asBoulder River Road, southwest of 

Atrytonopsis hianna, RICHLAND1 Basin, JEFFERSON County, 27 

WIBAUX County, NORTHEAST, (SJK). June (SJK). Euptoieta claudia, 

Papilio multicaudatus, Pohlod Creek, LATE is 25 September 1975 (SJK); 

Highwood Mountains, CHOUTEAU hills east of Toston, BROADWATER 

County, 23 July (CEH). Euchloe County, 30 June, 1 mile south of 

hyantis and Euchloe olympia, Helmsville, POWELL County, 6 

sympatric [first time reported September; 5 miles west of Butte, 

together], Beartooth Creek near SILVER BOW County, 26 August 

Holter Lake, roadsides, Big Belt (all SJK). Speyeria coronis, same 

Mountains, 4,150 ft, LEWIS and data asLycaena nivalis, JUDITH 

CLARK County, NORTHEAST for BASIN County (CEH]. Speyeria 

Euchloe hyantis and western limit for hydaspe, LATE is 24 September 

Euchloe olympia, 15 May (CEH). 1991 (SJK). Speyeria atlantis, 

Colias alexandra, EARLY is 9 May LATE is 14 September 1975 (SJK). 

1987 (NGWSJK). Colias pelidne, Euphydryas anicia, southeast of 

Gravelly Range, MADISON County, 7 Phillipsburg, GRANITE County, 13 

July (SJK); Basin Creek, south of July (SJK). Charidryas acastus, 

Butte, SILVER BOW County, 19 July Dry Fork Creek, 7 miles south of 

(SJK). Lycaena dione, 8 miles east of Geyser, JUDITH BASIN County, 23 

Power, TETON County, 31 July (CEH).July (CEH). Phyciodes mylitta, 

Lycaena heteronea, LATE is 24 LATE is 28 September 1993 (SJK). 

September 1975 (SJK). Lycaena Nymphalis calijornica, Forest 

nivalis, south of Stanford (yes!), Dry Road 683,2 miles east of Silver 

Wolf Creek Road, Blacktail Hills, on Lake, DEER LODGE County, 23 

Aster, JUDITH BASIN County, 20 June (SJK). Basllarchia arthemis, 

August (CEH). Satyrium saepium, Great Falls, CASCADE County, 

LATE is 18 September 1981 (SJK). SOUTH-SOUTHWEST, 17 July 

Strymon melinus, Harvey Creek (CEH). Coenonympha tulliu 

Road, west of Hall, GRANITE County, ochracea (3 blend), roadside near 

6 September (SJK); first Montana East Butte, Sweetgrass Hills, 

county record since 1987. Euphilotes LIBERTY County, 11 June (CEH). 

species [needing further study], Coenonympha haydenii, Elk Park 

Beartooth Plateau.Highway, just north Pass, north of Butte, SILVER BOW 

of Wyoming border, Carbon County, County, 28 June (SJK). Cercyonis 

26 July (CEH); same data as Lycaena oetus, EARLY is 15 June 1983 

nivalis, VERY LATE, Judith Basin (SJK). Neominois ridingsii, near 

County (CEH). Euphilotes enoptes, Hughes Ranch, northwest of 

Pipestone Pass, 6,418 ft, SILVER BOW Choteau, TETON County, 

County, 22 July 1968 (WDP); near NORTHWEST, 4,600 ft, 17 June 

Butte, Silver Bow County, 28 June (CEH). Oeneis uhleri, EARLY is 

(SJK); 2 miles east of Waco, 22 April 1986 (SJIC). Oeneis 

YELLOWSTONE County, EAST, 23 alberta, north face of Roberts 

May, EARLY (SJK). Glaucopsyche Mountain, 4,600 ft, 19 miles northlygdamus, 

2 miles east of Fallon, northwest of Wolfcreek, in 

PRAIRIE County, 25 May (SJK); need bunchgrass habitat, LEWIS and 

only Garfield for all Montana counties! CLARK County, 16 May (CEH). 

Plebejus saepiolus, Griffith Creek, Danaus plexippus, KM Ranch 

east of Glendive, DAWSON County, 24 Road, 3,100 ft, 5 miles south of 

May; Big Sheep Mountains, 17.5 miles Whitefish, FLATHEAD County, 

northwest of Terry, PRAIRIE County, NORTHWEST, 3 July 1983 (J. 

25 May (both SJK); need only WolfeIJLH). 

Sheridan for all Montana counties! 

Plebejus ica&ides, 2 miles east of Footnote for Montana watchers: Evans, in his 

Fallon, PRAIFUE County, 

monumental treatise on American skippers, 

NORTHEAST, 25 May (SJK). Plebqius from his desk in Britain and beina mainlv 

> " 

acmon, 9 county nxords in 1994: unfamiliar with U5A place names, misconstrued 

Griffith east of Glendive, our somewhat schizoid abbreviation for 

DAWSON County' 24 May (SJK); Mi5souri, MO, to mean Montana!, so beware of 

miles west of Plevna, FALLON County, 

26 May (SJK); Dry Fork Creek, 7 milesunu5ual skipper 

in subsequent 

south of G ~ JUDITH ~ BASIN ~ ~ literature ~ from , "Montana* because they ain't! 

County, 23 July (CEH); same data as 

Atrytonopsis hianna, RICHLAND/ 

WIBAUX County, NORTHEAST, 24 

Footnote to my 1993footnote: spell RAVALLI! 

WYOMING 

Contributors: DEB, CDF, FMNH (Florida 

Museum of Natural History], JLH, JMJ, KLL, ML, 

CAM, J5N, PAO, WDP, JA5, D5, RE5, GM5, 

ADW, EHW, BYU. 

Summary: This 18 total is by farthe largest 

ever, by 50 percent! A5 in neighboring States, 

spring flights were excellent and on schedule, 

butthere was essentially no rain after early 

June. Nearly everything afterthat flew early, by 

as much asa month, and even the alpine species 

were gone by mid-July. Usually-verdant prairie 

wetlands were bone dry by mid-August. 

MOTHS 


diffinis, Lone Tree Canyon [see 

BUTTERFLIES for fuller data for 

many MOTHS]; GOSHEN County, 

SOUTHEAST, 27 May (RES). 

ARCTIIDAE - Tumptiana 

~ermaculata, Gillette, CAMPBELL 

County, NORTHEAST, second 

STATE, 31 May (RES). Grammia 

williamsii, same data, CAMPBELL 

County, NORTHEAST. 

NOCTUIDAE - Synedoida 

pallescens, Elk Mountain, 

WESTON County, STATE, 29 May 

(RES, det PAO). S. adumbrata, 

Palmer Canyon, PLATTE County, 

NORTHEAST, 1 June (RES). 

Enargia decolor, Evanston, UINTA 

County, STATE, 26 August (RLL). 

Sideridis rosea, same as 

Thruptiuna permaculata, 

CAMPBELL County, STATE. Feltia 

jacul$era, Dingy Cutworm: 

Cheyenne, LARAMIE County, 8 

September (RES); Wheatland, 

PLATTE County, 23 August (RES); 

Evanston, UINTA County, 26 

August (RLL). Euxoa detersa, 

Cheyenne, LARAMIE County, 

STATE, 8 September (RES). 

Euxoa rockburnei, Evanston, 

UINTA County, STATE, 26 August 

(RLL). Euxoa tessellata, 

Cheyenne, LARAMIE County, 

STATE, 18 August (RLL). 

Heliothis zea, corn eanvorm, 

abundant, all southeast Wyoming 

counties, August through 

September (RES). Heliothis 

oregonicus, Elk Mountain, 


(RES, GMM, AJK). 

GEOMETRIDAE - 

Lomographa uetaliata, Tensleep 

Canyon, WASHAKIE County, 

STATE, 31 May (RES). 

Sericosema juturnaria, Cedar 

Mountain, SWEETWATER [sic] 

County, STATE, 29 June (RES, 

ADW). Epihe spew, a 

beautiful black and white moth 

resembling a tiny Rheumaptera or 

Pyrgus, diurnal, Tensleep Canyon, 

WASHAKIE County, STATE, 31 

May (RES, det PAO). 

TORTRICIDAE - Eucosma 

fernaldana, Pole Mountain, 8,640 

ft, east of Laramie, ALBANY 

County, STATE, 17 August (RLL). 

CARPOSINIDAE - Carposia 

fernaldana, Elk Mountain, 


(RES, GMM, AJK). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Summary: I am including 125data points, with 

93 county recordsfor 63 species in 20 counties 

[all except Uinta County in 199311994]. The 

average species per county finally rose above 

100 this year, with so many people involved! The 

exact number, 100.38, is 86.53 percent of 

projection, and a major goal for 1995 is to reach 

90 percent (plug in a slightly higher county 

record goal than is obvious, because the 

projection goes up when unexpected county 

recordsarefound). There were threestate 

records, but both CDF and RE5 were apparently 

outto lunch when they occurred! 

Epargyreus clams, State Road 

220, 5,800 ft, 8.5 miles southwest 

of Casper, NATRONA County, 

associated with Glycorrhiza 

lepidota, 1 June (RES); larval 

shelter in Glycorrhiza lepidota, 

US 85 at Horse Creek, 4,950 ft, 

LARAMIE County, 22 August (JAS, 

RES). Thorybes pylades, US 16, 

5,400 ft, 3.6 miles west of Buffalo, 

JOHNSON County, NORTHWEST, 

31 May; Palmer Canyon, 5,400 ft, 

16.2 miles west of Wheatland, 

PLATTE County, SOUTHEAST, I 

June; West Fanny Peak, 5,884 ft, 

Forest Road 264, WESTON County, 

30 May, EARLY (all RES). 

Thorybes mexicanus, common, 

Pole Mountain, Albany County, 2 

June, with 24 other species the 

best diversity and density there in 

over 25 years (CDF). Erynnis 

icelus, Lone Tree Canyon, 4,600- 

4,800 ft, 10 air miles westsouthwest 

of Hawk Springs off 

Wyoming 313, GOSHEN County, 

SOUTHEAST, associated with 

Populus sargenti and R 

angustgolia [no aspen seen], one 

fairly fresh male taken, 27 May 

(RES); 3 miles below Elkhart 

Trailhead, 8,000 ft, SUBLETTE 

County, 7 July 1982, one fresh 

male (JMJ, det RES). Erynnis 

afranius, common but worn, same 

data as Erynnis icelus, 27 May, 

EARLY! (RES). Erynnis persius, 

female taken, 10 miles northwest 

of Thermopolis, HOT SPRINGS 

County, 30 July (WDP); Tensleep 

Canyon, 7,600 ft, WASHAKIE 

County, 31 May (RES). Pyrgus 

communis, common but worn, 

same data as Erynnis icelus, 27 

June 1995 


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May, EARLY! (RES); obviously the 

early and late database for 

Wyoming butterflies is somewhat 

primitive! Pholisora catullus, 

same data as Epargyreus clams, 

NATRONA County (RES). 

Hesperopsis libya lena, fresh and 

uncommon, Point-of-Rocks, 6,600 

ft, near 1-80, Sweetwater [sic] 

County, 29 June, EARLY (RES, 

ADW). Oarisma garita, County 

Road 1 at Henrys Fork River, 6,950 

ft (near McKinnon), 

SWEETWATER [sic] County, 

SOUTHWEST, 29 June (ADW); 

same data as Erynnis persius, 

WASHAKIE County (RES). 

Thymelicus lineola, on radiator of 

car, whacked between Thermopolis 

and Wind River Canyon (we'll bag 

the exact spot in 1995!), HOT 

SPRINGS County, STATE, 30 July 

(WDP); look at the maps and see 

that I predicted this skipper's 

invasion of our zone much too 

conservatively in Butterflies of the 

Rocky Mountain States. Hesperia 

juba, Powder River Pass, 9,677 ft, 

HIGH, Johnson County, 31 May, 

worn male at wet sand along US 16 

(RES). Hesperia comma near 

harpalus, common on rabbitbrush 

all over southeast Wyoming (7 

counties), 22 to 24 August (JAS, 

RES). Hesperia leonardus 

pawnee, Palmer Canyon Road at 

pavement's end, 5,800 ft, 17.0 

miles west of Wheatland, ALBANY 

County, WEST, 23 August (JAS, 

RES). Hesperia pahaska, same 

data as Epargyreus clam, 

NATRONA County, WEST, one 

fresh male at wet sand (RES). 

Hesperia nevada, common, 

gravelly knolls 5.3 miles south of 

Rozet, 4,800 ft, sagebrush and 

cushion plants, CAMPBELL 

County, NORTHEAST, 30 May; 


WASHAKIE County; bare hills with 

TV towers, 1.5 miles south of 

Newcastle, 4,420 ft, LOW, 

WESTON County, NORTHEAST, 

30 May (all RES). Atalopedes 

campestris, Bell Park, Torrington, 

4,100 ft, GOSHEN County, 

EAST(!), 22 August; Lusk, 5,050 ft, 

NIOBRARA County, NORTHEAST, 

23 August; Guernsey, 4,395 ft, 

PLATTE County, SOUTHWEST, 23 

August (all JAS, RES). Polites 

peckius, botanical gardens, 

Cheyenne, 6,100 ft, LARAMIE 

County, 26 August (RES); Lusk, 

5,050 ft, NIOBRARA County, 23 

August(JAS, RES). Polites draco, 

south of Wood River GS, 8,400 ft, 

HOT SPRINGS County, 31 May 

(RES). Ochlodes yuma, Wind 

River Canyon, 15 miles south of 

Thermopolis, HOT SPRINGS 

County, STATE, dramatically 

NORTHEAST, two slightly worn 

males on thistles, 26 August (RLL, 

det RES); only second known 

population east of continental 

divide, the other in the Rio Grande 

gorge in New Mexico, 500 miles to 

the south-southeast! Poanes 

hobomok (typical), one fresh male 

taken [a marvelous cloak-anddagger 

story; ask me sometime!], 

same data as Erynnis icelus, 

GOSHEN County, SOUTH, second 

STATE, 8 September (RES). 

Atrytonopsis hianna, Elk 

Mountain Road, 5,400 ft, Big Horn 

National Forest, on South Dakota/ 

Wyoming line, WESTON County, 

29 May (RES, AJK, GMM). 

"Amblyscirtes" simius, Palmer 

Canyon, 5,250 ft, 16.2 miles west 

of Wheatland, Platte County, 31 

May, EARLY (RES). Amblyscirtes 

oslari, La Bonte Canyon, 5,450 ft, 

State Road 94,19 miles south of 

Douglas, CONVERSE County, 

NORTHWEST; Palmer Canyon, 

5,250 ft, 16.2 miles west of 

Wheatland, PLATTE County, both 

31 May (RES). Amblyscirtes 

vialis, same data as Atrytonopsis 

hianna, WESTON County (RES). 

Parnassius phoebus, same data as 

Hesperia nevada (Campbell 

County, EARLY (RES). Papilio 

machaon ssp., large yellow female 

"brucei" type, 15 miles north of 

Newcastle, WESTON County, 11 

July 1981 (DEB). Papilio indra 

indra, Elk Mountain, western 

summit, 5,669 ft, Big Horn 

National Forest, WESTON County, 

NORTHEAST, 29 May (RES, AJK, 

GMM). Papilio rutulus, same data 

as Erynnis persius and Polites 

draco, 31 May, HOT SPRINGS and 

WASHAKIE counties (RES). 

Pontia sisymbrii nordini, same 

data as Papilio indra, WESTON 

County. Pontia occidentalis, same 

data as Hesperia nevada, 

WESTON County, now all 

Wyoming counties. Anthocharis 

sara, same data as Erynnis 

persius, WASHAKIE County 

(RES). Euchloe ausonides, same 

data as Polites draco, HOT 

SPRINGS County (RES). Colias 

alexandra, 2 miles south of Fossil 

Butte National Monument, 

LINCOLN County, 15 June 1988 

(CAM); same data as Atrytonopsis 

hianna, EARLY (GMM, AJK); now 

known from all but Big Horn and 

Sheridan counties [see C.D. Ferris, 

Bulletin of the Allyn Museum, No. 

138, 19941. Nathalis iole, Lone 

Tree Canyon, Goshen County, 22 

August; Hat Creek Breaks, 4,950 ft, 

14.5 miles north of Van Tassell, 

NIOBRARA County, 23 August 

(both RES). Lycaena hyllus, four 

county records, ALL range 

extensions within Wyoming: 

Horse Creek at US 85,4,950 ft, 

LARAMIE County, SOUTHEAST, 

22 August (JAS, RES); Lusk, 5,050 

ft, NIOBRARA County, 

NORTHEAST, 23 August (RES); 

Beartooth Butte, PARK County, 

NORTHWEST, 27 July (EHW); 

Green River at Daniel, 7,200 ft, 

SUBLETTE County, WEST- 

SOUTHWEST, 25 July (JLH); 

California, here we come! 

kcaena helloides (not 

megaloceras), Big Horn 

Mountains, SHERIDAN County, 28 

July (PAO); now all Wyoming 

counties. Satyrium liparops, east 

of Dead Indian Pass, PARK County, 

dramatically NORTHWEST, 30 July 

(WDP); first new county record 

since 1982, and suggests several 

other possible ones! Incisalia 

polia, Summit Ridge Lookout, 

6,096 ft, Forest Road 265, Big Horn 

National Forest, Weston County, 30 

May (RES, GMM). Strymon 

melinus, Bell Park, Torrington, 

4,100 ft, GOSHEN County, 23 

August (JAS). Everes amyntula, 

same data as Thorybes pylades, 

JOHNSON County; same data as 

Erynnis persius, WASHAKIE 

County (both RES). Celastrina 

ladon (form violacea), high in 

trees and rarely at wet ground, 

Lone Tree Canyon, same data as 

Erynnis icelus, GOSHEN County 

(RES). Celastrina sidara, same 

data as Polites draco, HOT 

SPRINGS County; same data as 

Erynnis persius, WASHAKIE 

County (both RES). 

Glaucopsyche piasus, Meadowlark 

Lake, 8,400 ft, BIG HORN County, 

31 May; same data as Polites 

draco, HOT SPRINGS County, 31 

May; same data as Epargyreus 

clams, NATRONA County, 1 June 

(all RES). Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus, same data as 

Celastrina sidara, HOT SPRINGS1 

WASHAKIE County, now all 

Wyoming counties. Plebejus 

melissa, same data as Erynnis 

icelus, 27 May, EARLY (RES). 

Plebejus rusticus, same data as 

Atrytonopsis hianna, 29 May, 

EARLY (previously 25 May 1990, 

RES). Plebejus icarioides, same 

data as Erynnis icelus, 27 May, 

EARLY (RES); same data as 

Thorybes pylades, PLATTE 

County, now all Wyoming counties. 

Plebejus acmon texanus, second 

generation fresh, 13 miles north of 

Wheatland, 4,825 ft, Platte County, 

23 August (JAS); same data as 

Hesperia nevada, WESTON 

County, now all Wyoming counties 

[for species]. Plebejus shasta, 

same data as Hesperia mada, 

Campbell and WESTON County, 

NORTHEAST, 30 May, VERY 

EARLY; Cedar Mountain, 7,200- 

7,800 ft, 10 air miles north of 

McKinnon, Sweetwater [sic] 

County, 29 June (RES, ADW). 

Speyeria idalia, alfalfa field, 5,100 

ft, 2.5 miles north-northwest of 

Pine Bluffs, LARAMIE County, 

SOUTHEAST, second STATE 

record, 8 September, one very 

worn female (RES). Speyeria 

aphrodite, Casper Mountain Road 

251,6,400 ft, NATRONA County, 

SOUTHWEST, several taken, 24 

August (JAS, RES). -Speyeria 

edwardsii, same data as 


EARLY (RES). Speyeria callippe 

gallatini, same data as Hesperia 

nevada, 30 May, EARLY;, Cedar 

Mountain, 7,800 ft, 10 air miles 

north of McKinnon, SWEETWATER 

[sic] County, SOUTH (for 

subspecies), 29 June (RES, ADW). 

Speyeria mormonia, same data as 

Papilio indra, 29 May, VERY 

EARLY (RES, GMM, AJK). 

Euphydryas anicia ssp, same data 

as Celastrina sidara, HOT 

SPRINGS1 Washakie County (RES). 

Charidryas acastus, larvae taken 

west of Hidden Basin Campground, 

BIG HORN County, NORTHWEST, 

17 August 1993; adults emerged 12 

January (JAS). Charidryas 

gorgone, same data as Papilio 

indra, WESTON County (RES). 

Phyciodes tharos (A), same data 

as Erynnis icelus, 27 May, EARLY 

(RES). Phyciodes cocyta [= 

morpheus = selenis = pascoensis 

= tharos B, see J.A. Scott: Papilw, 

New Series, #7 November 19941, 


WASHAKIE County, 31 May, 

EARLY; same data as Thorybes 

pylades, PLATTE County (both 

RES). Phyciodes batesii lakota 

[type locality Sioux County, 

NORTHEAST, see Scott above], 

same data as Atrytonopsis hianna, 

WESTON County, SOUTH (in 

Wyoming), 29 May, VERY EARLY 

(RES, GMM, AJK). Phyciodes 

pulchella [= campestris = 

pratensis, see Scott above] 

camillus, same data as Thorybes 

pylades, PLATTE County (RES). 

Phyciodes pallidus, same data as 


EARLY (previously 1 June); same 

data as Celastrina sidara, HOT 

SPRINGS1 WASHAKIE County; 

same data as Thorybes pylades, 

PLATTE County, SOUTHEAST (all 

RES). Polygonia comma, in bait 

trap, south Lodgepole Creek, 8,140 

ft, HIGH FOR TOTAL RANGE, 

ALBANY County, STATE, WEST, 

21 August (JSN). Polygonia 

satyrus, one taken, confirming 

1993 sighting, same data as 

Erynnis icelus, 27 May (RES). 

Polygonia faunus, same data as 

Papilw indra, WESTON County, 

NORTHEAST (GMM). Polygonia 

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gracilis zephyrus, same data, 

WESTON County (RES, GMM, 

AJK) . Polygonia progne 

nigrozephyrus, Rotary Park, 6,200 

ft, Road 251,3 miles south of 

Casper, NATRONA County, 24 

August (RES, det confirmed by 

JAS). Nymphalis califomica, two 

worn males, Victor Lake, Wind 

River Mountains, SUBLETTE 

County, 22 August 1945, John 

Hayward (BYU, det RES 1994). 

Vanessa virginiensis, same data as 

Atrytonopsis hianna, WESTON 

County, NORTHEAST (GMM); 

Cheyenne Botanical Gardens, 

6,100 ft, LARAMIE County, 

SOUTHEAST, 8 September (RES). 

Vanessa annabella, Torrington, 

4,100 ft, GOSHEN County; 

abundant, Lusk, 5,050 ft, 

NIOBRARA County, NORTHEAST; 

Wheatland, 4,650 ft, PLATTE 

County, all 23 August (JAS, RES). 

Basilarchia archippus, Stockade 

Beaver Creek at US 16,4,350 ft, 

5.5 miles east-southeast of 

Newcastle, Weston County, 30 May, 

EARLY (RES). B. weidemeyerii, 

same data as Erynnis icelus, 27 

May, EARLY (RES). 

Coenonympha tullia ochracea, US 

16 at CROOW Weston line, 4,400 

ft [no C. t. inomata type there], 30 

May (RES), now all Wyoming 

counties; fresh second generation 

out, Lusk, 5,050 ft, Niobrara 

County, 23 August (JAS, RES). 

Cercyonis pegala, Cedar 

Mountain, 7,200-7,500 ft, 10 air 

miles north of McKinnon, 

SWEETWATER [sic] County, 

SOUTHWEST, July 1965 (GMS). 

C. meadii, US 20126, 5,200 ft, 10 

miles east of Casper, NATRONA 

County, WEST, 24 August (JAS, 

RES), which continues JAS' story 

of "Casper the Ghost" of last year's 

Summary [C. meadii now 10 miles 

east, Cercyonis sthenele 10 miles 

west, hut neither in between]; 

same data as Nathalis iole, 

NIOBRARA County, 23 August 

(JAS, RES). Cercyonis sthenele, 

US 87 near Teapot Dome [a 

scandalous record on top of the 

ghost], 20 miles north of Casper, 

NATRONA County, 17 August 

(JAS, CFG - Casper not Clyde). 

Erebia epipsodea, same data as 

Cercyonis pegala, SWEETWATER 

[sic] County, SOUTHWEST, closest 

yet approach to the Uinta 

Mountains, where it is oddly 

unknown andlor absent (GMS). 

Neominois ridimgsii, common over 

much of southeast Wyoming, mid 

to late August (JAS, who also notes 

similarity of this odd species to 

Asian relatives in Hipparchia [like 

Karanasa - RES]); rim of Lone 

Tree Canyon, 5,100 ft, GOSHEN 

County, 22 August (RES). Oeneis 

uhleri, same data as Erynnis 

persius, but lower toward the 

canyon mouth, 5,600-5,800 ft, 

WASHAKIE County (RES). Oeneis 

chryxus, same data as Cercyonis 

pegala, SOUTHWEST (GMS). 0. 

melissa YELLOWSTONE National 

Park, 11,000 ft, 14 July 1938, A.G. 

Lauck (in Florida Museum of 

Natural History, det RES 1994, ssp. 

beani). 

UTAH 

Contributors: GTA, TCE, FMNH, CFG, JLH, 

JMJ, KLL, CAM, RCM, PAO, WDP, WLP, 5W5, 

RE5, KBT, BYU, WHW. 

Summary: Total of 17isthe highest ever, 

surpassing 15 in 1990, but most data are from 

earlieryears and generations. 1994was 

unusally hot and dry, much like the rest of Zone 

4, and most Lepidoptera flew poorly and early. 

MOTHS 

Note: Collect~ons and dets are by RCM except 

as noted. 

SPHINGIDAE - Sphinx dolli, 

S. vashti, Smerinthus cerisyi, City 

Creek Campground, 7 miles west 

of Junction, PIUTE County, 7 July. 

LASIOCAMPIDAE - 

Phyllodesma americana, same 

data as above. 

SATURNIIDAE - Coloradia 

pandora, 0.3 mile east of State 

Road 24, mile post 18-19, south of 

junction State Road 1191 Richfield, 

SEVIER County, 12 August (JMJ, 

RCM). 

ARCTIIDAE - Crambidia 

cephalica, same as Sphinx dolli, 

PIUTE County, SOUTHWEST. 

Lycomorpha gvotei, same as 

Coloradia pandora, SEVIER 

County; City Creek Campground, 

7 miles west of Junction, PIUTE 

County, SOUTHWEST, 11 August 

(JMJ, RCM). Bruceia pulverina, 

same as Sphinx dolli, PIUTE 

County, WEST. Holomelina 

fragilis, same, PIUTE County, 

SOUTHWEST. Turuptiana 

perrnaculata, same, PIUTE 

County. Arctia caja, same as 

Lycomorpha grotei, PIUTE 

County. Grammia nevadensis, 

same as Coloradia pandora, 

SEWER County. G. williamsii, 

same as Sphinx dolli, PIUTE 

County. Lophocampa ingens and 

L. argentata, same, PIUTE County, 

SOUTHWEST. Hemihyalea 

labecula, same as Lycomorpha 

grotei, PIUTE County and SEWER 

County. Pygarctia spraguei, Oak 

Grove Campground, GRAND 

County, WEST and first WEST 

SLOPE record known to me [but 

NOT a state record according to 

JMJ], 10 June (L.J. Liuf RCM). 

NOCTUIDAE - Catocala 

delilah desdemona, same as 

Pygarctiu spraguei, GRAND 

County (LJL/RCM). C. grotiana, 

C. relicta, C. aholibah, same as 

Arctia caja, PIUTE County. C. 

verrilliana, C. semirelicta, C. 

aholibah humbug E. Scrooge [ssp. 

now], same as Coloradia pandora, 

SEWER County. 

SESIIDAE - all collected by 

RCM, det John Holoyda, and 

checked against Eichlinl 

Duckworth and Utahensis 10:l by 

RES: ALL are state records except 

Sesia tibialis: SANPETE County, 

25 July. Carmenta albociliata, 

State Road 150,4 miles south 

of the Wyoming line, SUMMIT 

County, 2 July. C. ithacae, Leeds 

Canyon, WASHINGTON County, 9 

July. Penstemonia clarkei, 

Hyaline Canal, Spanish Fork, 

UTAH County, 14 July. Osminia 

donahueomm [let's hear it for 

Julian and Kathy!], Orem, UTAH 

County, 15 July. Synanthedon 

sequoiae, City Creek Campground, 

7 miles west of Junction, PIUTE 

County, 11 August. Now more 

than 20 Utah Sesiidae species! 

BUTTERFLIES 

Summary: I was able to scrounge up 70 data 

points [only 4came in from 1994!) through the 

kindness of several Utah lepidopterists, former 

lepidopterists, curators, professors, family 

membersand friends. Included are70 county 

records for48 species in 24counties [26 

counties in 199311994 combined], and a couple 

of deletions. Utah now has108.72average 

species per county, or 92.06 percent of 

projection; mostfutureaddit/ons will be 

skippers, lycaenids, a few common species from 

Morgan, Carbon, 5anpete and Waynecounties, 

and perhaps wme surprises. 

Epargyreus clams, Logan, 

CACHE County, NORTH, 12 July 

1968, R. Kirkland (BYU, det RES 

1994). Thorybes pylades, Ogden 

Canyon, WEBER County, NORTH, 

20 June 1932, A.D. Boyle (BW, det 

RES 1994). Erynnis brizo, 1.1 

miles east of Jeremy Ranch Golf 

Course, 6,600 ft, SUMMIT County, 

NORTHEAST, 26 April 1992 (SWS) 

Erynnis persius, South Fork 

Ogden River, 9,000 ft, CACHE 

County, NORTH, 1 August 1964, 

TJB (BW, genithicro det RES 

1994). Pyrgus centaureae, Beaver 

Creek, DAGGETT County, 

NORTHDJORTHEAST, 23 July 

1933, A.D. Boyle (BYU, det RES 

1994). F! scriptura, Old Woman 

Plateau, SEVIER County, 12 June 

1992 (JMJ, det RES 1994). 

Heliopetes ericetomm, trail to Calf 

Creek Falls, south of Boulder, 

GARFIELD County, 2 June (WDP). 

Piruna pirus, Dry Canyon, JUAB 

County, NORTHWEST, 5 August 

1904, T.U. Spalding (BW, det RES 

1994). Polites sabuleti, Logan, 

CACHE County, NORTH, 10 June 

1929, A.D. Boyle (FMNH, det RES 

1994); Bountiful, DAVIS County, 8 

September 1958 (WLP, det RES 

1994); north of Nephi, JUAB 

County, 12 June 1992 (JMJ, det 

RES 1994); Coalville, SUMMIT 

County, 13 September 1955 (WLP, 

det RES 1994); Provo, UTAH 

County, 4 September 1978 (WLP, 

det RES 1994); Heber City, 

WASATCH County, 15 August 1982 

(CAM, det RES 1994); now all Utah 

counties except Kane County. 

Polites draco, Cordway Flats, 

DAGGETT County, NORTHEAST, 

26 July 1990 (KBT); south Fork 

City Creek, 9 miles west of 

Junction, 8,400 ft, PIUTE County, 

21 June 1987, S.M. Clark (BYU, det 

RES 1994). Pamassius clodius, 

Maple Canyon at Box Canyon, 

SANPETE County, 11 June 1987, 

S.M. Clark (BW, det RES 1994). F! 

phoebus, Skyline Drive, Wasatch 

Plateau, SANPETE County, 11 

June 1987, S.M. Clark (BYU, det 

RES 1994). Papilio indra, 

BEAVER, CARBON, DUCHESNE, 

GARFIELD, MORGAN, WEBER 

counties, data withheld for 

conservation reasons (WHW). 

Papilio eurymedon, Raft River 

Mountains, BOX ELDER County, 

NORTHWEST, 17 June 1928, V.M. 

Tanner (BYU, det RES 1994). 

Pieris napi, Raft River Mountains, 

BOX ELDER County, 

NORTHWEST, 28 June 1983, J. 

Merica (BYU, det RES 1994). 

Euchloe hyantis lotta, Old Woman 

Plateau, SEVIER County, 5 June 

1992 (JMJ, det RES 1994). Colias 

meadii, Elkhorn Lake, 10,600 ft, 

WASATCH County, SOUTHWEST, 

27 July 1935, F.M. and H. Brown 

(BW, det RES 1994). Nathalis 

iole, Roosevelt, 5,100 ft, City Park, 

DUCHESNE County, 19 August 

1972, C. Evans (BYU, det RES 

1994). Lycaena editha, McKee 

Draw, DAGGETT County, 

NORTHEAST, 31 July 1982 (KBT). 

L. rubida, Dry Canyon, JUAB 

County, 20 July 1904, T.U. 

Spalding; Nephi, JUAB County, 13 

July 1929, A.D. Boyle; Maple Grove 

Campground, 6,400 ft, Fishlake 

National Forest, Pavant Range, 

MILLARD County, SOUTHWEST, 6 

July 1987, S.M. Clark (all BYU, det 

RES 1994). Satyrium saepium, 

SAN JUAN County, SOUTHEAST 

(TCE). Satyrium califomicum, 

0.5 mile NORTHEAST, Colton GS, 

8,500 ft, 18 miles north of Vernal, 

UINTAH County, SOUTHEAST, 3 

July (JLH). Mitoura spinetorum, 

Old Woman Plateau, SEWER 


County, 12 June 1992 (JMJ, det 

RES 1994). Brephidium exile, 

Price Canyon Recreation Area, 

CARBON County, 12 September 

1991, J. Zenger (BYU, det RES 

1994; same data as Heliopetes 

ericetorum, GARFIELD County 

(WDP). Hemiargus isola, Grassy 

Trail Creek, CARBON County, 7 

June 1978 (KBT). Celastrina 

ladon complex, Soldier Canyon, 

7,100 ft, US 40, WASATCH County, 

13 June 1991 (RES). Euphilotes 

spaldingi, ~imekiln canyon, 

Canyon Mountains, 6,800 ft, 

MILLARD County, 29 July (JLH). 

Plebejus idas annetta [NOT a new 

combination], Provo Canyon, 

UTAH County, SOUTH, 21 July 

1962, TJB (BYU, genitlmicro det 

RES 1994). Plebejus saepiolus, 


CARBON County, 18 June 1991, J. 

Zenger; Provo Canyon, UTAH 

County, 21 July 1962, TJB [also 

KBT 19731; both non-KBT records 

in (BYU, det RES 1994). P. 

rusticus, Provo Canyon, UTAH 

County, 21 July 1962, TJB (BYU, 

det RES 1994). P acmon lutzi, 


CARBON County, 18 June 1991, J. 

Zenger (BYU, det RES 1994). 

Apodemia morrno, Ogden, WEBER 

County, 27 August 1892 [yes!], 

A.J. Snyder (FMNH, det RES 

1994). Euptoieta claudia, Mueller 

Park, DAVIS County, 

NORTHWEST, 8 June 1930, A.D. 

Boyle; also Bountiful, DAVIS 

County, NORTHWEST, 24 June 

1978, E.R. Wilson (both BYU, det 

RES 1994). Speyeria coronis 

snyderi, Park City, SUMMIT 

County, 14 July 1893 [yes!, 

collected by the man it was later 

named for], A.J. Snyder (FMNH, 

det RES 1994). Speyeria atlantis 

wasatchia, well-known from the 

entire Wasatch Range, so add Salt 

Lake, Summit and Weber counties 

to the maps for "unsilvered". 

Speyeria hydaspe, Clear Creek 

Camp, BOX ELDER County, 

NORTHWEST, 19 July 1984, P. 

Peterson (BYU, det RES 1994). 

Euphydryas editha near 

hutchinsi, Farmington Canyon, 

6,200 ft, DAVIS County, 20 June 

1987, JLH; Aspen Grove, UTAH 

County, 13 June 1979, CAM (BW, 

genit/micro det RES 1994); the 

material I have seen from UTAH 

County southward is probably an 

undescribed subspecies-RES. 

Thessalia leanira alma, 1 mile 

southwest of Horse Canyon Mine, 

EMERY County, first record from 

central Utah 27 May 1982 (KBT; 

BW, det RES 1994). Polygonia 

faunus, Shingle Creek Canyon, 

SEVIER County, SOUTHWEST, 14 

August 1954 (WLP/CAM, det RES 

1994). Nymphalis vaualbum, 

Diamond Fork, Spanish Fork 

Canyon, UTAH County, SOUTH, 11 

April 1985, close sighting (JMJ). 

Vanessa virginiensis, Mt. Nebo, 

JUAB County, one taken in 

summer 1983 by CFG @de JMJ). 

Basilarchia archippus, Clearfield, 

DAVIS County, June 1926, one 

worn female (BYU, det RES 1994); 

South Willow Creek, Stansbury 

Mountains, TOOELE County, 10 

July 1973, L.P. Grey (a worn 

female Basilarchia archippus 

hhontani, in RES collection, given 

to me by L.P. Grey, who died in 

1994); Wasatch Mountain State 

Park, WASATCH County, 15 

August 1982, CAM (BW, det RES 

1994). Coenonympha tullia 

ochracea, montane material from 

Box Elder, Iron, Juab, Millard and 

Tooele counties is referable to this 

subspecies (CAM, JMJ, RES, BYU, 

all det RES 1994); now all Utah 

counties. Coenonympha haydeni, 

Provo Canyon, UTAH County, 24 

July 1962, TJB (BYU, det RES 

1994); this is not a believable 

record, based on all available 

information, nor are any of several 

other records from previous 

decades, so this species remains 

unknown AND UNLIKELY from 

Utah. Cercyonis pegala, Mona, 

5,000 ft, JUAB County, ssp 

utahensis Austin, det G.T. Austin 

(Bulletin of the Allyn Museum No. 

135, 1992). Cercyonis sthenele, 

Morgan, MORGAN County, 18 July 

1963, TJB, one fresh male with a 

slight suggestion of a red flush 

around the largest dorsal forewing 

spot (BYU, det RES 1994); Ogden 

Canyon, WEBER County, 14 

August 1933, A.D. Boyle, one fresh 

male with NO red flush (BYU, det 

RES 1994); a few of such 

specimens approach Cercyonis 

meadii in facies, but are better 

referable to Cercyonis sthenele 

[JAS considers the two species 

conspecific anyway, and I think I 

agree, so no big deal, amigos]. 

Erebia epipsodea, Provo Canyon, 

UTAH County, 12 July 1973, V.M. 

Tanner (BYU, det RES 1994); this 

is another enigma, since Dr. 

Tanner is considered reliable, but 

inadvertent mislabeling is 

considered likely, since the species 

is unknown from Utah except in 

the La Sal Mountains. See the 

Wyoming record above, and realize 

that Erebia epipsodea could well 

occur on the north slope of the 

Uinta Mountains in Utah, but all 

records so far from the Wasatch 

Range are dubious. Neominois 

ridingsii, Seely Creek, SANPETE 

County, 12 July 1979 (KBT). 

Oeneis jutta, McKee Draw, 

DAGGETT County, NORTHEAST, 

31 July 1982 (KBT). Danaus 

gilippus, San Rafael Campground, 

EMERY County, 30 June 1992, 

B.O. Huntsman; Ogden Canyon, 

WEBER County, 14 August 1933, 

A.D. Boyle (both BW, det RES 

1994). Footnote: "By nature, good 

men desire to know". Leonardo da 

Vinci, circa 1506. 

COLORADO 

Contributors: JKA, DEB, TSD, M5F, DL, KHL, 

5MN, J5N, PAO, WDP, CP5, JA5, 55, KE5, UCM, 

UNC, JBV, ADW, BYU. 

Summary: Total of 19 contributors is about 

average, butfewerthan in 1993. We had a 9 0 

percent winter snowpack and typical spring, but 

there was nearly zero precipitation after 

Memorial weekend, so the rest of the season 

was hot, dry, advanced and generally poor. 

Statewide forest fires, with several deaths, 

were in the national news; several lakes wentdry; 

and portionsof the National Forests were 

closed after 15 July becauseof the firesand fire 

danger. Nearly all butterflies were gone by12 

July on Loveland Pass, and most of thealpine 

wetlands looked like they usually do about Labor 

Day. As of 21 January1995 there still has been 

almost no rain or snow, so this could be a 

disastrous drought year. 

MOTHS 

HEPIALIDAE - Gazoryctra 

roseicaput, Bear Lake, Rocky 

Mountain National Park, LARIMER 

County, several dates (National 

Biological Service~PAO). G. 

pulcher, Moraine Park, Rocky 

Mountain National Park, LARIMER 

County, several dates (National 

Biological ServicePAO). 

PYRALIDAE - Mimoschinia 

rufofascialis, Limon, 5,365 ft, 

LINCOLN County, 9 June (RES). 

Loxostege sticticalis, Vogel 

Canyon trail, 4,400 ft, 16.5 miles 

south of La Junta, OTERO County, 

19 April (RES); hill, 4,960 ft, 5.6 

miles east of Flagler, KIT CARSON 

County, 14 May (RES). 

Choristostigma plumbosignalis 

I28 letters, so Strongylocentrotus 

drobachensis STILL wins!], 

Stanford cabin, Dory Hill, 8,950 ft, 

GILPIN County, 15 July (RES). 

Nomophila nearctica, same data 

as Mimoschinia, LINCOLN 

County. Spoladea recurvalis, 

State Road 10, 6,080 ft, 3.2 miles 

east of Walsenburg, HUERFANO 

County, STATE, 13 August (RES). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Narraga 

fimetaria, State Road 120 near 

Portland cement plant, 5,200 ft, 

FREMONT County, 17 May (RES). 

Lomographa semiclarata, 

Lefthand Canyon, 7,200 ft, Boulder 

County, 8 June (RES). Campaea 

perlata, Stanford cabin, Dory Hill, 

8,950 ft, GILPW County, 3 July 

(RES, CPS). Plataea trilinearia, 

associated with Artemisia 

filiformis, ARAPAHOE County 25 

May, CROWLEY County, 8 May, 

KIT CARSON County 14 May 

(RES). Mesothea incertata 

viridipennata, same data as 

Lomographa; Blacktail Creek, 

7,200 ft, Grand County, 20 June 

(RES). Dysstroma citrata, same 

data as Choristostigma, GILPIN 

County. Epirrhoe sperryi, same 

data as Lomographa (RES). 

LASIOCAMPIDAE - Gloveria 

arizonensis, Viztenz-Smith Park, 

6,100 ft, LARIMER County, several 

dates (PAO). Malacosoma 

calgornica, same data as 

Choristostigma. 

SATURNIIDAE - Hemileuca 

diana, Avondale, 4,500 ft, PUEBLO 

County, 1 November, LATE (RES). 

SPHINGIDAE - Proserpinus 

flavofasciata, TllN, R79W, S11, 

8,500 ft, JACKSON County, STATE 

(JSN); Hodges notes, however, that 

Colorado is the type locality of 

Proserpinus rachel, probably a 

synonym, and the TSD list shows 

it. 

NOTODONTIDAE - 

Lochmaeus bilineata, Wray, 3,650 

ft, YUMA County, EAST, 9 July 

(RE%. 

ARCTIIDAE - Inopsis 

[=Pygoctenucha]funerea (type 

locality New Mexico), Haddock 

Arroyo, 6,100 ft, just east of I-25,6 

miles north of Trinidad, LAS 

ANIMAS County, STATE, NORTH, 

6 June; Floyd Hill, 8,610 ft, CLEAR 

CREEK County, further NORTH, 

26 June (both RES). Lycomorpha 

grotei, Alamosa Creek 

Campground, 8,800 ft, Forest Road 

250, CONEJOS County, SOUTH, 

23 July (RES); see Utah, New 

Mexico, CHIH. Holomelina 

fragilis complex, Piney Creek, 

6,000 ft, ARAPAHOE County, 

EAST, 27 June (RES); Black 

Mountain Road, 6,800 ft, Elkhorn 

Range, MOFFAT County, 

NORTWST, 30 June (RES, 

ADW). Estigmene acrea 

arizonensis, same data as 

Gloveria, LARIMER County, 

NORTH (PAO). Arachnis picta 

complex, same data, LARIMER 

County, NORTH (PAO). Cycnia 

oregonensis, South Fork 

Republican River, 3,490 ft, YUMA 

County, EAST, 9 July (RES). 

Ctenucha cressonana, north Clear 

Creek, 7,200 ft, along State Road 

119, GILPIN County, 24 June 

(CPS, RES). Cisseps~lvicollis, 

Wray, 3,650 ft, YUMA County, 

EAST/ NORTHEAST, 10 June 

(RES). 

NOCTUIDAE: Drasteria 

minha, CROWLEY, EL PASO, 

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LINCOLN counties, 4,300-5,700 ft, 

8 May; LOGAN, MORGAN 

counties, 4,525-4,720 ft, 10 May, 

all in rolling prairie habitats (RES). 

Synedoida adumbrata, Boulder 

County 4 June; Grand County 21 

June (RES). Plathypena scabra, 

an incredible mimic of the skipper 

Erynnis zamcco!, Las Animas, 

3,900 ft, BENT County, 

SOUTHEAST, 1 November, LATE 

(RES). Caenurgina crassiuscula, 

abundant pest in 1994, in at least 

El Paso, Kit Carson, Phillips 

counties, May-July (RES). 

Autographa californica, common 

on rabbitbrush, Adams, Arapaho, 

Bent, Denver, Jefferson, Kiowa, 

Lincoln, Otero, Prowers, Pueblo 

counties, 20 October, 1 November, 

LATE (RES). Anagraphafalcifera, 

Limon, 5,365 ft, LINCOLN County, 

9 June (RES). Syngrapha ignea, 

common in most mountain 

habitats visited in Clear Creek, 

Conejos, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Rio 

Grande, Routt, and Summit 

counties, 30 June to 23 July (RES). 

Acronicta tartarea, Idaho Springs, 

7,800 ft, CLEAR CREEK County, 

STATE, 13 July 1993 (RHL). A. 

albamfa, Castle Rock KOA 

Campground, 6,800 ft, DOUGLAS 

County, 6 July 1993 (RHL). 

Eupseudomorpha brillians, 

incredibly beautiful diurnal moth 

resembling Erynnis (which flew 

with it) and forewing of 

Euphydryas gillettii, Carrizo PG, 

4,700 ft, 23.5 miles west of Campo, . 

BACA County, STATE, NORTH, 

ZONE 4,20 April (RES). Alypia 

octomaculata, same data, BACA 

County, SOUTHEAST; Wray, 3,650 

ft, YUMA County, 10 June (both 

RES). Apamea lignicolora, and 

Apamea sp. not det, same data as 

Choristostigma plumbosignalis, 

GILPIN County (RES). 

Pseudanthoecia tumida, beautiful 

yellow and black Schinia-like 

moth, State Road 10,6,080 ft, 3.2 

miles east of Walsenburg, 

HUERFANO County, 16 

September; Crystola Creek, 8,100 

ft, TELLER County, 3 September 

1973 (both RES). Rancora brucei, 

Stanford cabin, Dory Hill, 8,950 ft, 

13 July 1993, GILPIN County 

(RHL). Anarta melanopa, 

rockslides above Loveland Pass, 

12,500 ft, CLEAR CREEWSUMMIT 

County [known there for 

decades!], 16 July (CPS, RES). 

Perigonicafemata, reported in 

the 1993 Summary, is 

INCORRECT! It is E! fulminans, 

det J.G. Franclemont. Euxoa 

semita, same data as 

Choristostigma plumbosignalis, 

GILPIN County (RES). Eurois 

astricta and Xestia oblata, same 

data, GILPIN County (RES). 

Abagrotis mirabilis, Denver, 5,350 

ft, DENVER County, 14 July (RES). 

Heliothis zea (corn earworm), 

abundant on rabbitbrush, Adams, 

Arapaho, Baca, Bent, Crowley, 

Cheyenne, Denver, Douglas, 

Elbert, El Paso, Huerfano, Kiowa, 

Kit Carson, Las Animas, Lincoln, 

Morgan, Otero, Phillips, Prowers, 

Pueblo, Sedgwick, Teller, 

Washington, Weld, and Yuma 

counties, 27 August to 1 November 

(RES). H. phloxiphagus, Hill, 

4,960 ft, 5.6 miles east of Flagler, 

KIT CARSON County, 14 May 

(RES); one on rabbitbrush with 

scores of Heliothis sea, John 

Martin Dam, 3,874 ft, BENT 

County, 1 November, LATE (RES); 

none seen between these dates! 

Heliothis oregonicus, Smith Mesa, 

8,400 ft, between ParshalV Hot 

Sulphur Springs, Grand County, 21 

June (TSD, RES); Black Mountain 

Trail, 9,600 ft, Routt National 

Forest, Elkhorn Range, MOFFAT 

County, NORTHWEST, 30 June 

(RES, ADW). Schinia villosa, 

same data as Heliothis oregonicus, 

Grand County; Brush Creek, 

Beardsley Ranch, 8,600 ft, 

SUMMIT County, 28 June (RES, 

ADW); same data as Heliothis 

oregonicus, MOFFAT County, 

NORTHWEST (RES, ADW). 

Schinia persimilis, same data, 

MOFFAT County, NORTHWEST 

(RES). S. masoni, Knott Creek, 

7,600 ft, GGCSP [with permit], 

JEFFERSON County, 3 July, 20th 

Annual Gilpin Fourth of July 

Butterfly Count (RES and cast of 

dozens!). Schinia simplex, 

Norfolk Glen Park, Sand Creek, 

5,430 ft, Aurora, ADAMS County, 

23 June (RES). Many of the above 

records are by RES, who is not 

widely known as a moth man, but I 

could not have presented this list 

without a lot of help, in particular 

from PAO, ADW, TSD, Ric Peigler, 

and a few dets from Dr. 

Franclemont. Many thanks to all! 

BUTTERFLIES 

Summary: That moth list isa tough act to 

follow, but despite the summer and fall drought, 

we had one of the best field years ever! Many 

days were collectible from 7in the morning to 7 

at night, totally sunny. Nearly450 recordsare 

available, for over 200 species; of these, 236 are 

county records for 129 species in 50 counties 

[53 in 1993,57 both years combined]. Our 

State now has 113.11 average Species per county, 

or 92.39 percent of projection, which is slightly 

ahead of Utah forthe first time in several years. 

However, we havea long way togo toequal the 

96-97 percent levels of Arizona, California and 

Nevada,and both New Mexicoand Oregon are 

over 90 percent. This is all good news; 

Washington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming,and the 

Plains States need a lot of help, so lets work 

there too! Two state records were found: Polites 

pvretta] carus by RE5 and 5andia macfarlandi 

by PAOetal. Several moreare possible,Yogi, so 

it ain't over yet. 

Epargyreus clams, Purgatoire 

River, 3,900 ft, 2 miles southeast of 

Las Animas, BENT County, 6 June; 

Piedra Road (Forest Road 631), 

15.9 miles northwest of the 

junction with US 160,7,800-8,200 

ft, HINSDALE County, 25 July; US 

385 at KIT CARSONNuma line, 4 

miles south of Bonny State 

Recreation Area, 3,750 ft, 9 July 

(all RES). Thorybes pylades, hills 

north of US 160, 8,800 ft, 5.5 

roadmiles west-southwest of north 

La Veta Pass, COSTILLA County, 

first San Luis Valley drainage 

record, 5 June (RES). Erynnis 

telemachus, Texas Ranch, 4,700 ft, 

West Fork of North Carrizo Creek, 

BACA County, SOUTHEAST, few 

Gambel oak and ponderosa pine 

there, 20 April (RES); same data as 

Thorybes pylades, but gulches 

8,600 ft, COSTILLA County, first 

San Luis Valley drainage record 

(RES); Blacktail Creek, 1.8 miles 

northeast of Radium, 7,200 ft, 

GRAND County, 28 June, no oak 

seen (ADW, RES). Erynnis 

horatius, one worn male 

hilltopping, sandhills with TV 

towers, 3,850 ft, 6 miles south and 

2 miles west of Holyoke, county 

roads 14/33, PHILLIPS County, 

NORTHEAST, no native oaks in 

hundreds of miles, 10 June (RES). 

Erynnis martialis and Erynnis 

pacuvius, hills 0.7 mile northwest 

of the town of Palmer Lake, 8,500 

ft, precisely where F.M. Brown 

suggested I look just before he died 

[see E! beckerii for the bottom 

line], EL PAS0 County, 4 June 

(RES). Erynnis pacuvius, 3 miles 

north-northwest of Poncha Pass, 

San Isabel National Forest, 

CHAFFEE County, 26 June 1977 

(R.E. Howard, in BW collection, 

det RES 1994). Erynnis persius, 

Oak Creek, 8,200 ft, 28 miles 

south-southeast of Hayden, RIO 

BLANCO County, 1 July (RES). 

Pyrgus scriptura, Bear Creek 

Road, 6,600 ft, 3.4 miles southwest 

of Walsenburg, HUERFANO 

County, 22 April (RES). E! 

communis, same data as 

Epargyreus clams, HINSDALE 

County (RES); now known from all 

but Lake and San Juan counties. 

Pholisora catullus, along US 160, 

8,500 ft, 5.5 roadmiles westsouthwest 

of North La Veta Pass, 

COSTILLA County, 5 June (RES). 

Hesperopsis alpheus, same data as 

Inopsisfunerea, LAS ANIMAS 

County, SOUTHEAST (RES). 

Pimna pims, Sheephorn Creek 

along County Road 1, 7,150 ft, 

Grand/ EAGLE County line, 20 

June (RES); Spronks Creek, 

Dunckley Pass Road, 8,400 ft, 

HIGH, RIO BLANCO County, I 

July (RES, ADW); Elliot Creek 

Campground, 8,000 ft, Green 

Mountain Reservoir, SUMMIT 

County, 28 June (RES, ADW); 

dogbane flowers along State Road 

145, 7,500 ft, 8 roadmiles 

northeast of Dolores, 

MONTEZUMA County, 

SOUTHWEST (RES). 

Ancylowypha numitor, south Fork 

Republican River, 3,900 ft, 17.5 

miles north of Bethune, KIT 

CARSON County, 10 June (RES). 

Thynelicus lineola, still thriving 

at known colony, east Fork of 

Williams Fork River, 7,600 ft, 25.7 

roadmiles south of Hayden, Rio 

Blanco County, and northward 1 to 

7.7 miles into ROUTT County, 

NORTH, 7,000 ft, 1 July, VERY 

EARLY (previously 3 August)(RES, 

ADW); see Wyoming also. 

Hylephila phyleus, Springfield, 

4,350 ft, BACA County, 

SOUTHEAST, 29 August, EARLY 

(previously 5 September); 

Burlington, 4,160 ft, KIT CARSON 

County, NORTHEAST 10 

September; Avondale, 4,500 ft, 

PUEBLO County, SOUTHWEST, 1 

November; Lamar, 3,650 ft, 

Prowers County, 6 November, 

VERY LATE (previously 20 

October); (all RES). Polites 

(Yerretta) rhesus, 3-State marker 

[Colorado, Oklahoma, New 

Mexico], 4,500 ft, 11 roadmiles 

north-northwest of Kenton, 

OKLAHOMA [STATE RECORDsee], 

Baca County, 20 April, 

EARLY (previously 22 April); US 

385,4,325 ft, 8.5 miles north of 

Cheyenne Wells, CHEYENNE 

County, EAST, 14 May; 1.5 miles 

north of Manzanola, 4,300 ft, 

CROWLEY County, 8 May; breaks 

along State Road 71, 5,400 ft, 21.6 

to 23.0 miles north of Limon, 

LINCOLN/ WASHINGTON County, 

7 to 10 May; Peetz Table, 4,525 ft, 

20 miles north of Sterling, LOGAN 

County, NORTHEAST, 10 May; US 

385, 4,050 ft, 18 miles north of 

Burlington, KIT CARSON County, 

11 May; Divide, 9,100 ft, TELLER 

County, 16 May (all RES). E! (Y) 

cams, same data as Polites rhesus, 

and on roadside Astragalus flowers 

with rhesus 3.4 miles north of 

Kenton (Oklahoma), BACA 

County, STATE, NORTH, 20 to 21 

April (RES). Hesperiajuba, 0.4 

mile northeast of the town of 

Palmer Lake, 7,250 ft, on roadside 

rabbitbrush, EL PAS0 County, 

SOUTH [old records from further 

south, even into New Mexico, are 

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erroneous east of the Divide], 5 

September; good "fall" flight in 

Douglas and Jeffferson counties, 

including south Platte Canyon, 

5,600 ft, 20 October, almost LATE 

(both RES). Hesperia uncas, 

south of Reiradon Hill at KTVS 

transmitter tower, 4,400 ft, 9 

roadmiles east-southeast of 

Sterling, LOGAN County, 10 June 

(RES); hills along State Road 131, 

6,800 ft, 2 miles northwest of 

McCoy, ROUTT County, 20 June 

(RES). Hesperia comma 

colorado, Horseshoe Mountain, 

12,500 ft, 10 miles west of Fairplay, 

Park County, 8 July, VERY EARLY 

(previously 23 July) (ADW). 

Hesperia comma near harpalus 

[same phenotype as Pine Bluffs, 

Wyoming], worn female on 

marigolds near courthouse, 

Julesburg, 3,500 ft, LOW, 

SEDGWICK County, NORTHEAST, 

9 September (RES). H. leonardus 

pawnee, Clear Creek Canyon, 

7,100 ft, CLEAR CREEK County, 

WEST, 25 September; State Road 

181 (old US 85), 5,920 ft, at Exit 

67 of 1-25, on rabbitbrush, 

HUERFANO County, 16 

September; 1-25 at Huerfano River, 

5,950 ft, near famous Huerfano 

Butte [El Huerfano means The 

Orphan, for which the county was 

named], also HUERFANO County 

but SOUTH, 16 September; careful 

searches 27, 28,29,30 August 

failed to turn it up in the 

Walsenburg area, Otero, Crowley, 

Bent, Prowers, Las Animas or Baca 

counties, so it seems that the 

southernmost populations in 

Colorado are now known (all RES). 

Hesperia pahash, hill southeast 

of US 350,4,800 ft, 10.6 roadmiles 

northeast of Delhi, OTERO 

County, 5 June; hill east of State 

Road 109,4,800 ft, 6 miles west of 

Ninaview, BENT County, 6 June; 

hills west of US 385,3,900 ft, LOW. 

15 miles north of Burlington, KIT 

CARSON County, 10 June; US 160 

near Moon Valley Campground, 

8,400 ft, MINERAL County, 23 July 

(all RES); fresh female on dogbane, 

Mugrage Campground, 7,050 ft, 

Sheephorn Creek, GRAND County, 

28 June (ADW). H. viridis, Piney 

Creek, 6,000 ft, ARAPAHOE 

County, 27 June; gulch 5.6 miles 

east of Flagler, 4,880 ft, KIT 

CARSON County, 9 June; same as 

Hesperia uncas except gully to 

north, 4,300 ft, LOGAN County, 

NORTHEAST, 10 June; gulch west 

of US 385,3,950 ft, 4 miles north 

of Bonny Reservoir State 

Recreation Area, YUMA County, 

NORTHEAST, 10 June (all RES). 

H. nevada, same data as Hesperia 

uncas except on knoll, ROUTT 

County (RES). Atalopedes 

campestris, better than average 

first generation flight in Denver1 

foothill area, June to early July; 

Lamar, 3,650 ft, Prowers County, 6 

November, LATE (previously 3 

November)(all RES). Polites 

sabuleti, Coal Creek at State Road 

7, 5,090 ft, BOULDER1 Adamsf 

Weld counties, one female taken 

on rabbitbrush, 26 September 

(RES); flats near Big Dry Creek, 

5,230 ft, between Wadsworth 

Boulevard, Boulder Turnpike, and 

Church Ranch Road, JEFFERSON 

County, 27 September (RES). 

Polites themistocles, Hobrook 

Creek, San Isabel National Forest, 

ALAMOSA County, 8 August 1977 

(R.E. Howard, BYU, det RES 1994); 

Akron, 4,650 ft, WASHINGTON 

County, 8 July (RES). I sonora, 

same data as Hesperia pahaska, 

Grand County, 28 June, EARLY 

(previously 5 July)(RES, ADW). 

Anatrytone logan, 4 miles east of 

Flagler, 4,800 ft, KIT CARSON 

County, 8 July (MSF); nectaring on 

roadside thistle, US 385,3,700 ft, 

14 miles south of Lamar, 

PROWERS County, first record 

from lower Arkansas Valley in 

Colorado, 23 June 1977 (JBV). 

Ochlodes sylvanoides, same data 

as Epargyreus clam, HINSDALE 

County (RES). 0. yuma, female 

voucher [with permit], Dinosaur 

National Park, 6,000 ft, Moffat 

County, 17 June, EARLY and first 

evidence of probable bivoltinism in 

any Colorado population (TSD). 

Paratrytone snowi, Oak Creek, 

San Isabel National Forest, 

FREMONT County, 8 August 1977 

(R.E. Howard, BYU, det RES 1994); 

Lory State Park [with permit], Well 

Gulch, 5,600 ft, Larimer County, 

25 June, EARLY (previously 28 

June)(RES, ADW). Poanes 

hobomok (typical, not P. h. 

wetona), Wray, 3,650 ft, YUMA 

County, SOUTH, in shaded 

tallgrass riparian setting, 10 June 

(RES); see Wyoming. Poanes 

taxiles, Muir Springs Park, 4,315 

ft, 3 miles west-northwest of Fort 

Morgan, MORGAN County, EAST/ 

NORTHEAST, first prairie record 

east of the urban corridor in 

Colorado [but it occurs way 

eastward in Nebraska], 6 July 

(RES); tributary of Bishop Creek, 

7,400 ft, 2.7 roadmiles north of 

Egnar, SAN MIGUEL County, 24 

July (RES). Euphyes vestris, same 

data as Ancycloxypha numitor, 

KIT CARSON County; same data 

as Pimna pirus, RI0 BLANCO 

County (both RES). Euphyes 

bimacula, same data as 

Anatrytone logan, KIT CARSON 

County, SOUTWSOUTHEAST 

(MSF); seems to be expanding its 

range in Colorado. Atrytonopsis 

hianna, nearly absent in 1994. 

"Amblyscirtes" simius, studied 

intensively and flew well in 1994; 

hill 2 miles south of State Road 10, 

6,200 ft, 13 miles east-northeast of 

Walsenburg, HUERFANO County, 5 

June; same data as Hesperia 

~ahaska, OTEROIBENT County, 

EAST; hill 6,050 ft, Hoehne Road, 

1.5 miles east of 1-25, LAS ANIMAS 

County, SOUTH, 6 June (all RES). 

Amblyscirtes oslari, gulch 

northwest of Rouse Road, 6,550 ft, 

1.1 miles west of 1-25, HUERFANO 

County, 6 June (RES); same data 

as Hesperia viridis, KIT CARSON 

County (RES). Amblyscirtes 

aenus, fresh dwarf male, same data 

as Amblyscirtes oslari, but 5 June, 

HUERFANO County (RES). 

Amblyscirtes eos, same data as 

Polites rhesus, Baca County, 20 

April, VERY EARLY (previously 5 

May)(RES); Peaceful Valley Boy 

Scouts of America Ranch, 7,000 ft, 

ELBERT County, 4 May (RES); 

Clear Creek Canyon, 6,000 ft, 1 

mile west of Golden, JEFFERSON 

County, NORTHNORTHWEST, 

first Denver region record, 2 July 

1993, one worn male taken (WDP); 

south Rush Creek, 5,320 ft, 3.5 

miles north of Punkin Center, 

LINCOLN County, NORTHEAST, 8 

May (RES). Amblyscirtes phylace, 

JFK Golf Course, below Cherry 

Creek Dam, 5,460 ft, LOW, 

DENVER County [a"political" 

county record, as the city 

expands], 25 May (RES). 

Megathymus sp., very rare in 

1994, probably high parasitism. 

Parnassius phoebus, Simpson 

Mesa, 6,220 ft, WELD County, 

NORTHEAST, 28 June 1984 (UNC, 

det RES 1994). Papilio polyxenes, 


BENT County; several seen in 

PHILLIPS County, June to 

September, confirming previous 

second-hand records (all RES). 

Papilio machaon bairdii, black 

form, female, Chatfield Reservoir, 

5,426 ft, DOUGLAS County, 1 July 

1961 (DEB; MSF, JAS, RES agree 

with det); same data as Anatrytone 

logan, KIT CARSON County, 

EAST, rare on prairies (MSF); 

yellow female, Cherry Creek State 

Park [with permit], ARAPAHOE 

County, 20 July (ADW). Papilio 

indra, very rare again. I glaucus, 

US 24 at Big Sandy Creek, 5,340 ft, 

3 miles west of Limon, ELBERT 

County, 14 May (RES). P. rutulus, 

Creek at Iron Springs, 4,800 ft, 

LOW, south of U.S. 350, OTERO 

County, EAST1 SOUTHEAST, 6 

June (RES). I multicaudatus, 

Davis Springs Campground, upper 

end Green Mountain Reservoir, 

8,000 ft, SUMMIT County, 28 June 

(RES, ADW). Heraclides 

cresphontes, Greeley, 4,655 ft, 

WELD County, 14 June 1985 

(UNC, det RES 1994). Neophasia 

menapia, same data as 

Epargyreus clams, HINSDALE 

County (RES). Pontia beckerii, 

same local as Hesperia pahaska, 

but 16 August, BENT County, 

EAST; hills east of State Road 207, 

4,300 ft, LOW, 1.6 miles north of 

Manzanola, CROWLEY County, 6 

June; Radium, 6,940 ft, GRAND 

County, 20 June; south portion of 

Fort Carson, "white shale" habitat 

where Brown told me it should 

occur, 5,800 ft, EL PAS0 County, 

NORTHEAST, 4 June (all RES); 

this record and the three cited 

above raise El Paso County to 199 

butterfly species, and I solicit help 

in obtaining the 200th in Brownie's 

memory-Nymphalis 

californica-which can surely be 

found as adults in May or as 

gregarious larvae on Ceanothus 

fendleri in the foothills in June. 

Pontia sisymbrii, hills west of 

fairgrounds, 5,100 ft [now 

destroyed for housing], LOW, 

ADAMS County, NORTHEAST, 2 

May (RES). Pontia protodice 

"vernalis", same former habitat, 

Adams County, 16 February, VERY 

EARLY (previously 26 

February)(RES). P. occidentalis, 

Forest Road 535 beyond west 

Dolores Campground, 8,000 ft, 10 

roadmiles northeast of the junction 

with State Road 145, DOLORES 

County, 24 July; Raton Pass, 8,800 

ft, LAS ANIMAS County, SOUTH, 5 

June; same spot as Pontia 

protodice, 2 March, VERY EARLY 

(previously 22 March)(all RES). 

Euchloe olympia, common on 

many hilltops, Baca, BENT, 

CROWLEY, OTERO counties, 

4,300-4,925 ft, 19 to 21 April; US 

385,4,325 ft, 8.5 miles north of 

Cheyenne Wells, CHEYENNE 

County [also Kit Carson, Logan, 

Phillips, Sedgwick, Adams, 

Arapaho, Lincoln, Washington, 

Elbert, and El Paso counties], 11- 

14 May; Crystola Creek, 8,000 ft, 

HIGH, TELLER County, 16 May 

(all RES). Colias alexandra, hill, 

4,960 ft, 5.6 miles east of Flagler, 

KIT CARSON County, EAST, 14 

May; South Fork Cat Creek, Forest 

Road 271,9,000 ft, RIO GRANDE 

County, 23 July (both RES). 

Zerene cesonia, hill, 4,600 ft, Road 

13 south of Road G, upper Sand 

Canyon, Baca County, 20 April, 

VERY EARLY (previously 30 

April)(RES). Anteos clorinde, 

Piney Creek, 6,000 ft, ARAPAHOE 

County, my first USA capture [a 

chipped male, following several 

stormy days with huge south 

winds], 25 May, VERY EARLY 

(previously 15 July!)(RES). 

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Kricogonia lyside, 20 miles 

northeast of Akron, WASHINGTON 

County, single fresh individual 

photographed clearly, 21 June (Evi 

BucknerFAO). Eurema nicippe, 

Picture Canyon, 4,450 ft, Road 18 

south of Road J, Baca County, 20 


April)(RES); Greeley, WELD 

County, 18 July 1981 (UNC, det 

RES 1994 Nathalis iole, US 160, 

9,200 ft, 2.5 roadmiles westsouthwest 

of north La Veta Pass, 

COSTILLA County, 22 July (RES), 


MINERAL County (RES); more 

common than in several years, 

Denver area, 27 September to 6 

November (MSF, JAS, RES). 

Lycaena dione, US 350, 5,760 ft, 

10.4 roadmiles northeast of 

Trinidad, LAS ANIMAS County, 

SOUTH, 28 August, one fresh 

female on rabbitbrush (RES). L. 

editha, same data as Erynnis 

persius, RIO BLANCO County 

(RES, ADW). L. rubida, Forest 

Road 535 at Emerson 

Campground, 7,800 ft, northnorthwest 

of Stoner, DOLORES1 

MONTEZUMA County, 

SOUTHWEST, 24 July (RES). L. 

hyllus, Timpas Creek State Wildlife 

Area, 4,260 ft, OTERO County, 29 

August (RES). Lycaena "dorcas" 

castro, same data as Pontia 

occidentalis, DOLORES County. 

L. helloides, wetlands and roadside 

rabbitbrush, US 350,5,760-5,900 

ft, 3.5-7.1 roadmiles northeast of 

Trinidad, LAS ANIMAS County, 

SOUTW SOUTHEAST, 18 

September (RES); Minturn, 7,800 

ft, EAGLE County, 19 July 1970 

(JAS); Canon City, FREMONT 

County, 22 July 1970 (JAS); 4 

miles east of Moffat, SAGUACHE 

County, 29 August 1977 (JAS); on 

rabbitbrush, 1.6 miles north of 

Manzanola, 4,300 ft, Crowley 

County, 6 November, LATE for East 

Slope [7 November is LATE for 

west slope] (RES). Lycaena 

nivalis, good flight in Grand 

County, late June (TSD, RES). 

Hypaurotis crysalus, our 

unofficial "State Insect", flew well 

in its customary oak habitats, but 

we failed to find any new county 

records. Harkenclenus titus, 

Floyd Hill, 8,610 ft, CLEAR CREEK 

County, 26 June; same data as 

Lycaena rubida, DOLORES 

County; same data as Epargyreus 

clarus, HINSDALE County. 

Satyrium behrii, same data as 

Hesperia pahaska, MINERAL 

County; same data as Poanes 

taxiles, SAN MIGUEL County; 

same data as Epargyreus clams, 

HINSDALE County (all RES). 

Satyrium&liginosum, common 

and worn [EARLY], Eagle and 

Grand County, 20 June (RES). S. 

saepium, same data as 

Harkenclenus titus, CLEAR 

CREEK County (RES). Satyrium 

calanus godarti, north La Veta 

Pass, 9,413 ft, US 160, COSTILLN 

Huerfano County, 22 July (RES). 

S. liparops aliparops, north Clear 

Creek at Tunnel 4, US 61 State 

Road 119,7,100 ft, CLEAR CREEK 

County, 26 June (RES); same data 

as Erynnis telemachus, GRAND 

County (ADW); same data as 

Piruna pirus, MONTEZUMA 

County, SOUTHWEST, and same 

as Poanes taxiles, SAN MIGUEL 

County (RES). Satyrium 

calqornica, same data as 

Harkenclenus titus, CLEAR 

CREEK County (RES); same data 

as Piruna pirus, RIO BLANCO 

County (RES, ADW). Satyrium 

sylvinum, Sage Creek, 7,000 ft, 

Road 37,7 miles south-southeast 

of Hayden, Routt County, 1 July, 

EARLY for West Slope (ADW); 

wetland at State Road 3701 Road 

100, 7,602 ft, 11 miles westsouthwest 

of Alamosa, ALAMOSN 

RIO GRANDE County, 23 July 

(RES); same data as Epargyreus 

clarus, HINSDALE County (RES). 

Callophrys apama, same data as 

Pontia sisyrnbrii, ADAMS County 

(RES); Ruby Hill, 5,391 ft [highest 

natural point in town!, DENVER 

County, 25 May (RES). Mitoura 

siva, hills with junipers east of 

State Road 109, 4,800 ft, 21 miles 

south-southeast of La Junta, 19 

April, EARLY for east slope (RES); 

one worn female on yellow 

composite flower, no junipers in 

miles, Piney Creek, same data as 

Anteos clorinde, ARAPAHOE 

County (RES); 1 mile southeast of 

LeRoy [where], LOGAN County, 

first record from northeastern 

Colorado [nearest native junipers 

in Keith County, Nebraska], 21 

June (Evi Bucknerl PAO); same 

data as Hesperia uncas, ROUTT 

County (RES); State Road 109 at 

north end of Mesa de Maya, 5,140 

ft, Las Animas County, 15 August, 

second generation common and 

fresh, with yellow [not green] 

ventral color (RES). Mitoura 

spinetorum, Alamosa Creek 

Campground, Forest Road 250, 

8,900 ft, CONEJOS County, 23 

July (RES); 2 miles west of South 

Fork, RIO GRANDE County, 2 

June 1968 (JAS). Sandia 

macfarlandi, Gotera Canyon, 

Mesa de Maya, LAS ANIMAS 

County, STATE, NORTH, 

associated with Nolina texana, 28 

May (PAO); long-expected, it 

should also occur in Baca and 

Huerfano County, Colorado, and 

Cimarron County, Oklahoma for a 

state record Incisalia polia, 0.2 

mile south of north La Veta Pass, 

9,600 ft, COSTILLN Huerfano 

County, 5 June (RES). Incisalia 

augustinus, State Road 103 at 

Snyder Gulch Road, 8,200 ft, 

CLEAR CREEK! Jefferson County, 

15 May (RES); absent at La Veta 

Pass Incisalia polia spot, probably 

too far south for kinnikinnickassociated 

populations. Incisalia 

eryphon, same data as Erynnis 

telemhus, BACA County, EAST1 

SOUTHEAST1 LOW (RES). 

Strymon melinus, same data as 


County; John Martin Dam, 3,874 

ft, Bent County, 1 November, VERY 

LATE (previously 20 October in 

prior years, 26,27 October various 

eastern Colorado counties, all 

RES). Brephidium exile, very rare 

again in 1994; one taken at John 

Martin Dam, Bent County, 1 

November, LATE for East Slope 

(RES). Leptotes marina, same 

data as Poanes taxiles, DOLORES 

and SAN MIGUEL counties, several 

on roadside dogbane flowers; same 

data as Epargyreus clarus, 

HINSDALE County; abundant in 

alfalfa fields, Baca, Bent, Crowley, 

Huerfano, Kiowa, Las Animas, 

Otero, Prowers, and Pueblo 

counties, 27 to 30 August (all 

RES). Hemiargus isola, with 

Hemiargus marina, but always 

more common, all southwestern 

Colorado counties visited including 

HWSDALE and RIO GRANDE, 23 

to 25 July (RES); but we failed to 

find it in Rio Blanco County on 1 

July, so it is now recorded in 62 of 

63 counties (RES, ADW). Everes 

comyntas, flying with Everes 

amyntula [extremely unusual], 

Soldier Canyon, 5,600 ft, Larimer 

County, 25 June (RES, ADW); 

same data as Lycaena dione, LAS 

ANIMAS County, SOUTW 

SOUTHWEST (RES); Timpas 

Creek State Wildlife Area, 4,260 ft, 

OTERO County, 28 August (RES); 

alfalfa field near Purgatoire River, 

3,900 ft, 2.3 roadmiles southsoutheast 

of Las Animas, BENT 

County, 29 August (RES); alfalfa 

field along State Road 207,4,350 

ft, 4 miles south of Crowley, 

CROWLEY County [also Eurema 

nicippe, one taken, CROWLEY 

County, 29 August (RES). 

Celastrina [ladon complex] 

cinerea, same data as Pontia 

occidentalis, LAS ANIMAS County, 

STATE/ NORTH for subspecies 

(RES). Euphilotes battoides 

centralis, shaley hills near Aguilar, 

6,400 ft, LAS ANIMAS County, 

SOUTH, 22 July; same data as 

Hesperia pahaska , MINERAL 

County; hill southeast of US 350, 

4,800 ft, 10.6 roadmiles northeast 

of Delhi, OTERO County, 14 

August; hill 4,880 ft, east of State 

Road 109,21 miles southsoutheast 

of La Junta, BENT 

County, 16 August; summit of Two 

Buttes, 4,650 ft, PROWERS 

County, EAST, 15 August; south 

end of Two Buttes Dam, 4,300 ft, 

LOW, BACA County (confirms old 

record with poor data), 

SOUTHEAST, 15 August (all RES). 

Euphilotes rita coloradensis, 

shaley roadcut west of I-25,5,200 

ft, near Young Hollow exit, 3 miles 

north of Piiion, PUEBLO County, 

13 August; shaley roadcut on State 

Road 10,6,080 ft, 8.8 roadmiles 

east-northeast of Walsenburg, 

HUERFANO County, 13 August; 

Dry Bluff, 5,312 ft, near Apishapa 

Canyon [access via State Road 10, 

about 15 miles southeast of 

milepost 141, OTERO County, 13 

August; county line road, 2.3 miles 

east of State Road 109 at BENT1 

LAS ANIMAS line, 4,600 ft, 14 

August; State Road 3891 NM 551 at 

state line, 6,500 ft, 2 miles south of 

Branson, LAS ANIMASI UNION 

County, SOUTH, 14 August; 

county line road, 11 miles east of 

Ninaview site, 4,500 ft, BACN 

Bent1 Las Animas County, 

SOUTHEAST, 15 August; 1.6 miles 

north of Manzanola, 4,325 ft, LOW, 

CROWLEY County, 16 August; 

gone everywhere by 28 August (all 

RES). Euphilotes spaldingi, very 

poor showing in 1994. 

Glaucopsyche piasus, hills 1 mile 

west of Fairgrounds, 5,100 ft, 

ADAMS County, 25 May (RES). 

Plebejus melissa, same data as 

Epargyreus clams, fresh female 

nectaring on Eriogonum 

racemosum [but no spaldingi 

seen], HINSDALE County; now 

need only SAN JUAN County for all 

63 Colorado counties! Plebejus 

saepiolus, same data as Polites 

themistocles, ALAMOSA County 

(BYIJ, det RES 1994); Owl Creek, 

5,950 ft [not LOW], WELD County, 

NORTHEAST, 30 June 1984 (UNC, 

det RES 1994). Plebejus 

icarioides, same data as Hesperia 

juba, 5 September, not quite LATE 

(RES). Plebejus acmon complex, 

same data as Erynnis persius, RIO 

BLANCO County [new for E! a. 

lutai; E! a. texana known]; l a. 

texana, same place as Erynnis 

horatius, but 11 May, PHILLIPS 

County; E! a. texana, numerous 

prairie locations, 3,800-5,600 ft, on 

rabbitbrush, 26 October to 6 

November, VERY LATE (previously 

20 October)(all RES); undescribed 

tundra subspecies, same data as 

Hesperia comma (ADW). Plebejus 

shasta pitkinensis, same data, 8 

July, EARLY for subspecies (ADW). 

Apodemia rnormo ssp, same data 

as Euphilotes battoides (also 16 

June 1995 


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August, 28 August), OTERO 

County, EAST; same as Euphilotes 

battoides, BENT County, further 

EAST; but absent on Two Buttes, 

Prowers County, even though 

Euphilotes battoides and 

Eriogonum jamesii are common 

there (all RES). Apodemia nais, 

same data as Colias alexandra, 

RIO GRANDE County (RES). 

Libytheana carinend bachrnaniu 

larvata, absent in 1994. Euptoieta 

claudia, John Martin Dam, 3,874 

ft, Bent County, 6 November, LATE 

(previously 3 November)(RES). 

Speyeria cybele charlottii, same 

data as Erynnis telemachus, 28 

June, EARLY for subspecies (ADW, 

RES); Speyeria cybele carpenterii, 

same data as Pontia occidentalis, 

DOLORES County (RES). 

Speyeria aphrodite ethne, US 350 

just northeast of Delhi, 4,950 ft, 

female on rabbitbrush, OTERO 

County, 28 August; subspecies 

near byblis, same data as 

Epargyreus clams, on thistle 

flowers, HINSDALE County; 

undescribed subspecies [see 

Moeck] , same data as Erynnis 

persius, RIO BLANCO County (all 

RES). Speyeria edwardsii, on 

rabbitbrush near Nee Granda Lake, 

3,950 ft, KIOWA County, 29 

August; Black Wolf Creek, 3,800 ft, 

west of US 385, 12.5 miles south of 

Wray, YUMA County, 10 June; 


BENT County, 6 June (all RES). 

Speyeria coronis, Riverdale Road, 

4,990 ft, ADAMS County, one worn 

female, 25 September (RES); 

Greeley, WELD County, 

NORTHEAST, 3 August 1984 

(UNC, det RES 1994). Speyeria 

zerene sinope, East Portal, Gilpin 

County, 9,300 ft, 3 July, EARLY for 

that locality and NEW for the 

Gilpin Fourth of July Butterfly 

Count (MSF). Speyeria egleis, 

same location as Erynnis 

telemachus, but 20 June, GRAND 

County, SOUTHEAST (RES). 

Speyeria atlantis hesperis, Chalk 

Bluffs, 6,100 ft, WELD County, 

NORTHEAST, 16 July 1979 (UNC, 

det RES 1994); nikias, electa and 

intermediates, same data as 

Erynnis persius, Rio Blanco 

County (RES, ADW); nikiad 

hesperis blends, same data as 

Speyeria zerene (MSF). Speyeria 

hydaspe, east Black Mountain [= 

Welba Peak] and trail, 9,800 to 

10,801 ft, Elkhorn Range, Moffat 

County, 30 June, EARLY 

(previously 3 July) but worn [I 

have a 21 June sighting, just for 

laughs](RES, ADW); same data as 

Erynnis persius, RIO BLANCO 

County, SOUTHWEST (RES, 

ADW). Speyeria morrnonia 

eurynome, Denver, [now DENVER 

County], fresh female, August 

1902 (FMNH, det RES 1994; this is 

acceptable, because there are 

recent records for stray females in 

the metroplex in late summer). 

Clossiana titania, same data as 

Polites themistocles, ALAMOSA 

County (BYLJ, det RES 1994). 

Euphydryas anicia capella, Piney 

Creek, 6,055 ft hilltop, ARAPAHOE 

County, 27 June (RES); Greeley, 

28 June 1984 (UNC, det RES 

1994). Poladryas minuta, same 

data as Sandia macfarlandi, 28 

May, EARLY (PAO); State Road 

389/ New Mexico 551 at State line, 

6,500 ft, 2 miles south of Branson, 

Las Animas County, 6 June (RES). 

Poladryas arachne, same data as 

Hesperia uncas, ROUTT County, 

NORTHWEST (RES); Greeley, 

WELD County, NORTHEAST, 14 

June 1985 (UNC, det RES 1994). 

Thessaliafulvia, same data as 

Anteos clorinde, ARAPAHOE 

County (RES); Cedar Point, 5,800 

ft, 10 air miles northwest of Limon, 

ELBERT County, 14 May (RES). 

Charidryas pallaflavula and 

Charidryas nycteis drusius, same 

data as Erynnis persius, RIO 

BLANCO County (RES, ADW). 

Charidryas gorgone, same data as 

Thorybes pylades, COSTILLA 

County, first San Luis Valley 

drainage record (RES). Phyciodes 

phaon, Holly, 3,390 ft, LOW, 

PROWERS County, SOUTHEAST, 

30 August (RES). Phyciodes 

tharos (A), John Martin Dam 

Campground, 3,800 ft, Bent 

County, 1 November, VERY LATE 

(previously 19 October)(RES). 

Phyciodes cocyta [=selenis, etc. 

see Wyoming], same data as 

Erynnis persius, RIO BLANCO 

County; same data as Satyrium 

sylvinum, ALAMOSAI Rio Grande 

counties, first San Luis Valley floor 

record, occupying weedy alfalfa 

fields like Phyciodes tharos A does 

on the eastern plains; US 160 at 

First Notch Road (Forest Road 

620), 7,200 ft, ARCHULETA 

County [confirms old BR records 

where identification was uncertain 

A/B/C], 25 July (all RES). 

Phyciodes batesii anasazi [see 

J.A. Scott, Papilio New Series, No. 

71, called "type C" or 

misdetermined previously (type 

locality Mesa County, Colorado), 

Grizzley Creek, GARFIELD 

County, 15 June 1962,3 July 1964 

and subsequently (JAS); probably 

widespread from south Wyoming 

to central Arizona. Phyciodes 

pulchella [=campestris, etc., see 

above reference] camillus, same 

data as Hesperia pahaska, 

OTERO/ BENT counties (RES); 

delete BACA County, because my 

specimen is a female Phyciodes 

mylitta(!) det PAO/JAS. R pictus, 

Clear Creek Canyon, 6,200 ft, 

JEFFERSON County, WEST, 3 July 

(SSRAO); alfalfa field 3.2 miles 

east of Walsenburg, State Road 10, 

6,010 ft, HUERFANO County, 28 

August (RES); Sterling, LOGAN 

County, 11 May (RES); Slick Rock, 

Dolores River, SAN MIGUEL 

County, NORTHWEST, 15 July 

1977 (DEB). Phyciodes pallidus, 

same data as Hesperia uncas, 

ROUTT County (RES); same data 

as Piruna pirus, SUMMIT County 

(RES, ADW). Polygonia 

interrogationis and Polygonia 

comma, Messex Creek at south 

Platte River, 4,090 ft, 

WASHINGTON County, 6 to 7 July 

(RES). Polygonia satyrus, 

Johnson Park, 5,500 ft, Clear 

Creek at Wadsworth Boulevard, 

Jefferson County, 2 March, EARLY 

(previously 7 March)(RES); Cole 

Park, 7,550 ft, Alamosa, ALAMOSA 

County, 23 July (RES). Polygonia 

progne nigrozephyrus, same data 

as Erynnis telemachus, GRAND 

County, 20/28 June; several fresh 

at mud, Sage Creek, 7,000 ft, 7 

miles south-southeast of Hayden, 

Road 37, Routt County, 1 July 

(RES, ADW); Waterton, south 

Platte River Canyon, 5,600 ft, 

LOW, Douglas/ Jefferson County, 

20 October, VERY LATE 

(previously 21 September)(RES). 

Nymphalis californica, almost 

NEVER seen after July here, but 

now read this: several seen, mostly 

fresh, 3 miles west of Eggers, 

Poudre Canyon, Larimer County, 

16 OCTOBER 1946, VERY LATE 

(DEB): reared to adults by 

Dolansky and Twarkins from larvae 

found on Ceanothus fendleri by 

ADW at Lewis Creek Trail, 3.2 

miles west of Wetmore, 30 May; 

this year, Andy, ya gotta find 'em 

on the hills west of Palmer Lake for 

the 200th species in EL PAS0 

County! Nymphalis milberti, 


one fresh male hilltopping, OTERO 

County (RES). Vanessa atalanta, 

two flying in high winds around 

rocky hilltop, above Dunckley 

Pass, 10,200 ft, 1 July (RES, with 

ADW); now need only Dolores and 

San Juan counties in Colorado. 

Vanessa virginiensis, Carrizo 

Creek PG trail, 4,700 ft, 23.5 miles 

west of Campo, Baca County, 19 


May in Denver area, where an 

April record would be 

unbelievable!); Highway Springs 

Campground, US 160,8,350 ft, 

RIO GRANDE County, 25 July; 

small oak woodland, 7,200 ft, State 

Road 131,11.8 roadmiles north of 

State Bridge, 5:00 pm!, ROUTT 

County, 28 June (RES, with ADW). 

Vanessa annabella, Floyd Hill 

summit, 8,610 ft, CLEAR CREEK 

County, 26 June; Las Animas, 

3,900 ft, BENT County, 1 

November, almost LATE (both 

RES). Junonia coenia, west 

Carrizo Creek, 4,750 ft, Baca 

County, 21 April, VERY EARLY 

(previously 27 June!); north Clear 

Creek, 7,200 ft, State Road 119, on 

rabbitbrush, GILPIN County, 25 

September; Waterton, south Platte 

River Canyon, 5,600 ft, Jefferson 

County, 20 October, LATE 

(previously 14 October)(all RES); 

Vogel Canyon, Otero County, 13 

October (DL). Basilarchia 

\ , 

archippus, same data as Satyrium 

svlvinum. ALAMOSAMO 

GRANDE counties (RES); 1-25 at 

Huerfano River, 5,950 ft, near 

Huerfano Butte, HUERFANO 

County, 16 September (RES); US 

287, 2 miles north of Aroya, 4,800 

ft, the only decent wetland in 

CHEYENNE County [finally!], 30 

August(RES); same data as Sandia 

macfarlandi, LAS ANIMAS 

County, SOUTH (PAO). 

Basilarchia weidemeyerii, Limon, 

5,365 ft, LINCOLN County, EAST, 

9 June (RES); Timpas Creek at 

Iron Springs, 4,800 ft, south of US 

350, OTERO County, 

SOUTHEAST, 6 June (RES). 

Asterocampa celtis, ssp. celtis, 

same data as Ancycloxypha 

numitor, KIT CARSON County, 

SOUTH. Asterocampa celtis ssp. 

antonia, Purgatoire River State 

Wildlife Area, 3 miles south of Las 

Animas, 3,880 ft, BENT County. 

Asterocampa celtis ssp. montis, 

same data as Junonia coenia, 

GILPIN County; these three 

subspecies clearly separate in 

Colorado, with no intermediates 

and large gaps between 

populations. Anaea andria, biopsy 

record [long story], Peaceful Valley 

Boy Scouts of America Ranch, 

7,010 ft, HIGH, ELBERT County, 4 

May (RES); Cucharas River, 6,250 

ft, Walsenburg, HUERFANO 

County, SOUTHWEST, 5 June 

(RES). Satyrodes eurydice 

fumosa, about 10 seen, fresh, La 

Porte, 5,010 ft, Larimer County, 25 

June (CPS, RES, ADW); Jefferson 

County experimental colony still 

going, July (JAS). Megisto cymela, 

same data as Ancycloxypha 

numitor, KIT CARSON County, 

SOUTH, 10 June, VERY EARLY 

(previously 23 June)(RES). 

Cyllopsis pertepida, same data as 


County (RES). Cercyonis meadii, 

Woodmen Valley, 6,850 ft, El Paso 

County, entire habitat being 

destroyed by scores of giant 

earthmovers as I watched in 

horror, so at least the FINAL 

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ecord is of interest: 18 July, 

EARLY for East Slope (RES). 

Cercyonis sthenele masoni, same 

data as Erynnis telemachus [and 

confirming RES EARLY sighting 

and MISS! 20 June at same place], 

GRAND County, EAST, 

NORTHEAST (ADW with RES). 

Erebia epipsodea, Spronks Creek 

and Dunckley Pass, 8,400-9,800 ft, 

RIO BLANCO County, 1 July (RES, 

ADW). Erebia theano, Corona 

Lake Trail, 0.5 mile southwest of 

Corona Pass, 11,600 ft, GRAND 

County, NORTHWEST, 19 August, 

1973 (RES, KAS, WS, SES). 

Neominois ridingsii, same data as 

Hesperia pahaska, OTERO 

County, SOUTHEAST (RES); near 

Green Mountain Reservoir, 

SUMMIT County, 12 July 1975 

(DEB); Independence Pass, 12,100 

ft, HIGH, Lake/ Pitkin County, July 

1960 (DEB). Oemis jutta, Smith 

Mesa, 8,400 ft, LOW, between 

Parshall and Hot Sulphur Springs, 

Grand County, 21 June, EARLY 

(previously 23 June)(RES with 

TSD). Oeneis chryxus, one worn 

male, same data as Speyeria 

hydaspe, 10,801 ft, MOFFAT 

County, NORTHWEST (ADW with 

RES looking on). Oeneis alberta, 

northeast of Raton Pass, Las 

Animas County, 22 May (MSF). 

Oeneis melissa, all rags, and 0. 

polixenes, absent [either gone for 

the year or totally absent in 19941, 

Loveland Pass, 12,000 to 13,500 ft, 

Clear Creek and Summit counties, 

16 July [usually optimal or 

early](CPS, RES). Oeneis 

polixenes brucei, Hayden Peak, 

PITKIN County, 12 July 1902, 

Horlacher, one fresh male (FMNH, 

det RES 1994). Danaus 

plexippus, same data as Vanessa 

virginiensis, Baca County, 19 

April, EARLY (RES); both Danaus 

plexippus and Danaus gilippus 

were very rare in 1994. Alfred 

North Whitehead wrote, circa 

1936: "It requires a very unusual 

mind to undertake the analysis of 

the obvious." We are working on 

it ... 

NEW MEXICO 

Coordinator: SJC. 

Contributoru: SJC, NED, CDF, JLH, KWH, BCK, 

KHL, GMc, F&JP, RES, ADW, BYU. 

Summary: This total of 12 is the highest since 

13 in 1989, theyearofthe Albuquerque 

Lepidopterists' Society meeting. SJC wrote 

extensive notes on the season, which was beset 

with an early spring, wet early summer, 

extremely dry mid-summerto fall with 

persistent high pressure over the four-corners 

region, preventing the monsoon moisture to flow 

north [with stray Lepidoptera] from Mexico, and 

to make things worse,a sports injury tooneof 

the major collectorsand illness fortheother, so 

most records below are from earlieryearsand 

non-resident lepidopterists. Get well quick, you 

guys! 

MOTHS 

Summary: Received were 41 records for 39 

species in 11 familiesfrom4observers. 

Determinationsare by RHL, exceptthat CDF's 

are his own, and a couple shaky ones by RES! 

ZYGAENIDAE - Pyromorpha 

fusca, Mangas Springs, Grant 

County, 10 to 13 August (CDF); all 

CDF records which follow have the 

same data. 

PYRALIDAE - Eoreuma 

callista, Arivaca albidella, A. 

artella, among 155 moths at 

ultraviolet light in arroyo next to I- 

40, Grants, CIBOLA County, 15 

July 1993 (RHL). 

THYRIDIDAE - Dysodia 

oculatana (CDF). 


pervolata, motel lights, Carlsbad, 

EDDY County, 19 February (RES, 

det RHL). S. cyda (CDF). 

Glaucina nephos, Cimarron, 

COLFAX County, 5 July 1993 

(RHL). G. nota, same data as S. 

pervolata. STATE. Glaucina 

species undetermined, motel 

lights, Socorro, SOCORRO County, 

10 October (RES, determination 

pending). Drepanulatrix 

unicalcararia (CDF). Pero 

modesta, Nemoria ariaonaria, 

Chlorochlamys appellaria (CDF). 

Scelidacantha triseriata, same 

data as Pyralidae (RHL). 

APATELODIDAE - 

Apatelodes pudefacta (CDF). 


Quadrim diazoma (CDF). 

SATURNIIDAE - 

Sphingicampa hubbardi (CDF). 

SPHINGIDAE - Ceratomia 

amyntor, same data as Glaucina 

nephos, WEST. Pachysphinx 

occidentalis, same data as 

Pyralidae (RHL); also (CDF). 

NOTODONTIDAE - Datana 

perspicua mesillae and 

Heterocampa lunata (CDF). 

ARCTIIDAE - Lycomorpha 

fulgens, Gila Wilderness, GRANT 

County, June 1977 (CSU, det BCW 

RES). Haploa species 

undescribed, same data as 

Glaucina nephos, SOUTH. 

Spilosoma viginica and Arachnis 

picta (CDF). 

NOCTUIDAE - Matigramma 

rubrosuffusa, Catocala euphemia, 

Tarachidia virginalis, 

Euscirrhopterus gloveri, 

Alypwdes bimaculata, Cucullia 

montanae, Scotogramma fervida 

proxima, and S. tilodonta, same 

data as Pyralidae (RHL). Euxoa 

clausa, same data as Glaucina 

nephos, EAST. Hemiaweoa 

rudens, same data as Semiothisa 

peruolata, probably EARLY, but 

otherwise ho-hum. Heliothis zea, 

common August through 

September, COLFAX and MORA 

counties (RES); also (CDF). 

Heliothis australis (Hardwick, 

Journal of the Leuidouterists' 

Society Vol. 48, No. 2), Cedar 

Crest, Sandia Mountains, 

BERNALILLO County, STATE, 

EAST (mainly Mexican), 4 July 

1993 (RHL). Schinia gaurae 

(CDF). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Summary: About 130 records were received, 

mostly from previous years, found by Cary and1 

or Holland in the preparation of several 

manuscripts, including their recent New Mexico 

checklist'in Journal of Research on the 

Lepidootera, 31(1-2):57-82,1992 [1994]. 

Included below are 83 county records for 6 0 

species in 25 counties (28 in 1993,31133 both 

years combined), but the average species per 

county went uponly from 111.39to 112.15 (25 

county records net increase), because the 

authors deleted many very old county records 

with poor or nodocumentation. That number is 

90.80 percent of projection, exactly the same 

as Oregon and well ahead of Montana and 

Wyoming in Zone 4. There were no state records 

in 1994forthefirstyearthisdecadel 

Pyrrhopyge araxes, Iron Creek 

Campground, State Road 152, west 

of Emory Pass, GRANT County, 

NORTH, 25 August 1985, Wells 

and Whiting (BYU, one male det 

RES 1994). Chioides 

albofasciatus, Guadalupe Canyon, 

HIDALGO County (confirms old 

record with poor data), 13 October 

1991 (SJC). Zestusa dorus, 

Farmington, SAN JUAN County, 

NORTHWEST, 2 May 1934 

(Cornell University collection, det 

ADW 1994); Gallo Mountains, 

Catron County, 6 June, LATE 

(RWH). Thorybes pylades, Hondo 

Canyon, near Taos, TAOS County, 

26 June 1954, V. Nabokov (Cornell 

University collection, det ADW 

1994). Systasea zampa, Ash 

Canyon, near Elephant Butte Dam, 

4,500 ft, SIERRA County, 

NORTHEAST, 10 April 1977 

(RWH). Erynnis brizo, Cooke's 

Range, Luna County, 4 March, 

EARLY (previously 5 March)(SJC). 

Erynnis juvenalis clitus, Animas 

Mountains, Hidalgo County, 19 

March, VERY EARLY (previously 1 

April)(SJC). Erynnis horatius, 

Philadelphia Canyon, 6,700 ft, 

Sacramento Mountains, LINCOLN 

County, 18 April 1974 (RWH). 

Erynnis pacuvius, Emory Pass, 

SIERRA County, SOUTHEAST, 13 

August 1988 (SJC). Erynnis 

funeralis, 3 miles north of Mills, 

State Road 39, HARDING County, 

14 August 1984 (SJC). Erynnis 

afianius, Mule Canyon, 

Sacramento Mountains, CHAVES 

County, SOUTHEAST, 17 April 

(RWH); Raton Mesa, 8,800 ft, 

HIGH, COLFAX County, 3 May 

1972 (JAS/SJC); David Hill, 

HARDING County, 4 May 1989 

(SJC, PAO, RES, KAS); Luna Park, 

6,500 ft, San Mateo Mountains, 

SOCORRO County, 26 August 

1973 (RWH). Erynnis persius, 

Cedar Creek Canyon, 6,900 ft, 


County, 24 May 1959 (JMW RWH); 

Mt. Taylor, 8,200 ft, MCKINLEY 

County, 22 May 1966 (MET/RWH); 

5 miles southeast of Mescalero, 

7,200 ft, Sacramento Mountains, 

OTERO County, SOUTH, 24 May 

1959 (JMB/RWH); Holy Ghost 

Campground, 8,200 ft, Sangre de 

Cristo Mountains, SAN MIGUEL 

County, 2 June 1974 (METm); 

Black Range, [probably] SIERRA 

County, in Burns' 1964 

monograph, requires clarification 

or confirmation (SJC). Pyrgus 

xanthus, Mule Canyon, 

Sacramento Mountains, CHAVES 

County, SOUTHEAST, 17 April 

(RWH). Pyrgus scriptura, Eagle 

Nest, 8,000 ft, COLFAX County, 23 

June 1954, V. Nabokov (Cornell 

University collection, det ADW 

1994); Wolf Creek, 3 miles 

northeast of Watrous, MORA 

County, 7 August (SJC). Pyrgus 

communis communis, Willow 

Creek, 8,100 ft, Mogollon 

Mountains, CATRON County, May 

to August several years (CDFI 

RWH); Bonito Lake, 7,600 ft, 


County, 22 July 1963 (HKCEWH); 

High Rolls, 6,350 ft, Sacramento 

Mountains, OTERO County, 

SOUTH, 21 July 1965 (HKCLWH); 

Beartrap Campground, 8,500 ft, 

Magdalena Mountains, SOCORRO 

County, 23 July 1964 (FMBAWH). 

Pyrgus communis albescens, 

several genitalic preps yet to be 

made, sorry (RES). Pholisora 

catullus, Watrous, 6,406 ft, MORA 

County, 17 September (RES). 

Staphylus ceos, Big Pine Canyon, 

21 miles southwest of Alma, 

CATRON County, 3 May 1992 

(SJC). Piruna pirus, Mangas 

Mountains, CATRON County 

(confirmatory), 5 June RWH). 

Oarisma garita, Turkey Run, 

Black Range, SIERRA County, 4 

July (SJC). 0. edwardsii, 

Porcupine Spring, Gallo 

Mountains, CATRON County, 30 

June (RWH). Polites [Yvretta] 

rhesus, 13 miles south of Wall 

June 1995 


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Lake, State Road 61, 7,500 ft, 

CATRON County, 13 June 1988 

(RWWSJC); Santa Fe, SANTA FE 

County, 22 May 1951 (W.H. Howe, 

Butterflies of North America, PI. 

88, Fig 17). Polites [Yvretta] 

carus, Mule Canyon, Sacramento 

Mountains, CHAVES County, 

SOUTHEAST, 17 April (SJC); see 

the results north and northeast of 

Union County, in Colorado and 

Oklahoma, by RES because of 

SJC's UNION County record in 

1993! Stinga mowisoni, Water 

Canyon Campground, 7,100 ft, 

Magdalena Mountains, SOCORRO 

County, 9 May 1970 (RWH). 

Hesperia woodgatei, west of La 

Cueva, 7,100 ft, MORA County, 

NORTHEAST, 17 September (SJC, 

with RES); Clara Peak, RIO 

ARRIBA County, NORTH, 

NORTHWEST, 23 September 

(SJC); many worn females on 

rabbitbrush, AZlState Road 78, 

5,900 ft, LOW, Grant County at 

Arizona line, 10 October (RES). 

Hesperia pahaska near williamsi, 

San Augustine Pass, Dona Ana 

County, 15 May (F&JP). 

Anatrytone logan, Charette Lakes, 

Mora County, WEST, 26 June 

(SJC). Paratrytone snowi, Scales 

Canyon, 3 miles south of State 

Road 59, Black Range, SIERRA 

County, SOUTHEAST, 15 July 

1989 '(RWH). Euphyes vestris, 13 

miles north of Mills, HARDING 

County, EAST, 12 June 1993 (SJC). 

Atrytonopsis lunus, Fillmore 

Canyon, Organ Mountains, 29 

August [probably 18991, T.D.A. 

Cockerell (New Mexico State 

University collection, det SJC), 

DONA ANA County, EAST, first 

new [!I record in years! 

Atrytonopsis vierecki, west slope 

of south Sandia Peak, 

BERNALILLO County, 18 May 

1963 (JASIRWH). A. python 

margarita, near Aguirre Springs, 

Organ Mountains, Dona Ana 

County, 14 May (F&JP). 

"Amblyscirtes" simius, common, 2 

miles south of Branson, Colorado, 

at State line, 6,700 ft, Union 

County, 6 June (RES); near Horse 

Springs Ranch, CATRON County, 

13 August (SJC); these are clearly 

different subspecies or even 

species, to whomever finally puts 

this "species" into its proper genus 

(JMB): a spring-flying, gray-tan 

prairie bug that occurs widely from 

Canada to northern New Mexico; 

and a late-summer-flying, smaller, 

brown montane bug that occurs 

from southwest New Mexico and 

southeast Arizona southward in 

Mexico to Chiapas! (RES). 

Amblyscirtes oslari, Sacramento 

Canyon, 5,000 ft, Sacramento 

Mountains, OTERO County, 14 

June 1975 (RWH). A. texanae, OK 

Canyon, Cooke's Range, LUNA 

County, 25 May 1992 (SJC). 

Amblyscirtes aenus, Frijoles 

Canyon, Bandalier National 

Monument, LOS ALAMOS County, 

17 May 1970 (CC/MET/RWH). A. 

cassus, Mangas Mountains, Catron 

County, 7 June, VERY EARLY 

(previously 17 June)(RWH). A. 

nereus, Slate Spring, Hadley Draw, 

5,400 ft, northeast slope of Cooke's 

Peak, LUNA County, 6 August 1989 

(RWH); Black Range, 7,600 ft, 

HIGH, Sierra County, 4 July (SJC). 

A. vialis, Glorieta Canyon, SANTA 

FE County [YES!], SOUTH, 12 

June (SJC); Panchuela 

Campground, near Cowles, SAN 

MIGUEL County, SOUTHEAST, 2 

July 1977, R.E. Howard (BYU, det 

RES 1994). A. phylace, Mangas 

Mountains, CATRON County, 7 

June (SJC); Turkey Run [GO, 

Meleagris, GO!], Black Range, 

SIERRA County, 4 July (SJC). 

Megathymus yuccae ssp., Trigo 

Canyon, Manzano Mountains, 

VALENCIA County [new 

boundaries], 6,400 ft, 8 May 1973 

(MSF). Battus philenor, Rock 

Lake Fish Hatchery, GUADALUPE 

County, 6 August (SJC). Papilio 

polyxenes, Smuggler Hills, Hidalgo 

County, 5 March, VERY EARLY 

(previously 16 March) (SJC). 

Papilio eurymedon, same data as 

Amblyscirtes vialis, SANTA FE 

County, SOUTH [there are dubious 

andlor invalid records from further 

south]. Pontia beckerii, slope 

between Dwyer Mesa and Una de 

Gato Creek, COLFAX County, 

EAST, 14 September 1980 (JASI 

SJC). Pontias sisymbrii, same 

data as Papilio polyxenes, 5 

March, confirms EARLY by MET 

with incomplete data Pieris 

rapae, Santa Fe, 11 November, 

VERY LATE (previously 15 

October)(SJC). Euchloe hyantis, 

same data as Papilio polyxenes, 5 

March, EARLY (previously 9 

March)(SJC). Zerene cesonia, 

Cooke's Range, Luna County, 4 

March, VERY EARLY (previously 

26 March)(SJC). Phoebis sennae, 

US 380, 10 miles west of Roswell, 

CHAVES County, 13 September 

1984 (SJC). Eurema mexicana, 

Animas Mountains, Hidalgo 


(previously 27 March)(SJC). 

Eurema nicippe, Cooke's Range, 

Luna County, 4 March, VERY 


March)(SJC). Eurema 

boisduvaliana, Guadalupe 

Canyon, HIDALGO County, 

SOUTHWEST, 8 September 1984 

(SJC). Nathalis iole, Animas 



23 March)(SJC). Atlides halesus, 

same data as Hesperia woodgatei, 

Grant County, 10 October, (RES). 

Phaeostrymon alcestis, 11 miles 

north of Tinnie, LINCOLN County, 

WEST for subspecies, 20 June 

1982 (RWH). Satyrium behrii, 

Bandelier National Monument, 

LOS ALAMOS County, 25 June 

(SJC); Coyote Creek State Park, 

MORA County, 16 July (SJC). 

Ministrymon leda, Kingston, 

SIERRA County, 2 July (SJC); first 

new county record in years! 

Mitoura spinetorum, 12 miles 

southeast of Santa Fe, Santa Fe 

County, 11 September, VERY LATE 

(previously 14 August)(SJC). 

Incisalia augustinus, Animas 

Mountains, HIDALGO County, 5 


14 April)(SJC). Hemiargus isola, 

same data, VERY EARLX 


Everes comyntas, same data, 

VERY EARLY (previously 26 

March)(SJC); Las Cruces, DONA 

ANA County, 11 May 1977 (W.A. 

Baltosser, det SJC). Euphilotes 

battoides centralis, Alamitos 

Canyon, Mangas Mountains, 

CATRON County, 23 July (RWH); 

Cimarron Canyon, near dam, 

COLFAX County, EAST, 29 June 

1985 (SJC); State Road 551 at 

state line, 6,700 ft, 2 miles south of 

Branson [Colorado], UNION 

County, further EAST, 14 August 

(RES). Euphilotes rita 

coloradensis, same data, UNION 

County, VERY FAR EAST1 

NORTHEAST (RES). Euphilotes 

species not determined, caprock 

near Ima, QUAY County [ANY sp!] , 

EAST1 SOUTHEAST, 6 July (SJC); 

the date suggests Euphilotes 

battoides, but the range maps 

favor Euphilotes rita, which lives 

at least as far south as Big Bend 

National Park, Texas; keep tuned! 

Glaucopsyche lygdamus, 3N, 1E 

of Cloudcroft, OTERO County, 

SOUTW SOUTHEAST, 11 May 

(NED). Plebejus icarioides, 

Pajarito Ski Area, LOS ALAMOS 

County, 28 July 1990 (SJC). 

Calephelis nemesis, Turkey Run, 

Black Range, SIERRA County, 

NORTH, 15 May, VERY EARLY 

(previously 27 May)(SJC); first 

new county record in years! 

Emesis zela, Animas Mountains, 

Hidalgo County, 6 March, VERY 


March)(SJC). Apodemia mormo 

ssp, common at Mangas Springs, 

Grant County, June (CDF). A. 

nais, Johnson Mesa, COLFAX 

County, EAST1 NORTHEAST, 26 

June (SJC). Libytheana 

carinenta, same data as Hesperia 

woodgatei, incredibly common 

and many fresh, 10 October (RES). 

Dione (Agraulis) vanillae, near 

Kingston, SIERRA County, 4 June 

(RWH). Speyeria atlantis 

dorothea, nice photo of a fresh 

female topotype at Sandia Crest, 

Bernalillo County, 29 July (GMc, 

det RLL, RES). Euphydryas 

anicicd chalcedona hermosa, 

Animas Mountains, Hidalgo 



Thessalia&lvia, Sierra Blanca Ski 

Area, LINCOLN County, 19 July 

1985 (SJC); Priest Canyon, 

Manzano Mountains, VALENCIA 

County, 23 August 1988 (SJC). 

Phyciodes texana, Animas 



23 March)(SJC). I phaon, 

Sumner Dam, DE BACA County, 

WEST, 15 June 1985 (SJC). I! 

coqta [=selenis, etc., see 

Wyoming], July Fourth Canyon, 

Manzano Mountains, TORRANCE 

County, 28 June 1969 (KRfSJC). 

Vanessa atalanta, Animas 


March, EARLY (previously 12 

March) (SJC). Junonia coenia, 

rabbitbrush along 1-25 near 

Maxwell, 5,950 ft, COLFAX County 

[confirms old record at BYU] , 17 

September (RES). J. nigrosufisa, 

Rattlesnake Springs, EDDY 

County, SOUTHEAST, 26 July 

1986 (SJC). Basilarchia 

archippus, among sandbar 

willows, Cimarron Creek in 

Springer, 5,800 ft, COLFAX 

County, 17 September (RES). B. 

astyanax, 2 miles north of 

Kingston, SIERRA County, 31 July 

1986 (SJC). Megisto rubricata, 

Cooke's Range, LUNA County, 3 

July (SJC); near Kingston, SIERRA 

County [confirms old record], 2 

July (SJC). Coenonympha 

ochracea subfusca, Escondido 

Mountain, CATRON County, 

SOUTHEAST and STATE for 

subspecies, SOUTW SOUTHWEST 

for species and Coenonympha 

tullia complex, 22 May (RW 

SJC). Cercyonis pegala, Luciano 

Mesa, GUADALUF'E County, 6 

August (SJC). Neominois 

ridingsii, same data as 

"Amblyscirtes" simius, also 

common and fresh, 6 June (RES). 

Gyrocheilus patrobas, several 

worn females on rabbitbrush, same 

data as Hesperia woodgatei, Grant 

County, 10 October (RES); missed 

being LATE by only four days! 

Danaus species uncommon again; 

need Danaus gilippus from Los 

Alamos and Valencia counties yet. 

Final note: Our group found 65 butterfly 

species including 24 probable state records, 

most with photo documentation or reliable 

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sightings, in BAJA HIDALGO County [CHIH]; 

contact RES. 

SASKATCHEWAN, 

MANITOBA, NORTH 

DAKOTA, SOUTH 

DAKOTA, 

- NEBRASKA, AND 

KANSAS. 

Coordinator: Ronald Alan Koyer (RAR), 

Division of Science, Minot State University, 

Minot ND 58707; telephone (701)857-3209 

(Office) or (701)857-3161 (Division Office); e. 

mail: royer@warp6.cs.misu.nodak.edu 

Contributors: Gary G. Anweiler (GGA), Neil 

Dankert (NED); Jeff Germer (JCG), Ronald R. 

Hooper (KKH), John Jordison (JCJ), Abran J. 

Kean (AJK), Paul Klassen (PK), John Kozial (JK), 

Robert L. Langston (RLL), Jean Legge (JL), Doug 

Long (DKL), Marilyn Lutz (ML), Gary M. Marrone 

(GMM), Harold Nagel (HGN), Bob Neugebauer 

(BN), Karen L. Olmstead (KLO),Tim Orwig (TTO), 

James Reiser (JMK), Kilian Koever (KK), 

Paulette Scherr (PS), Steve Spomer (SMS), Ray 

Stanford (RES), Peter Taylor (PT), Eric Volden 

(EV), Ralph Wall (RW), Steve Williams (SGW). 

SASKATCHEWAN 

Provincial Coordinator: RRH. 

Contributors: GGA, JK. 

Summary: The season was reported as having 

moderate temperatures with average rainfall 

Except for Pieris rapae, butterflies were not 

plentiful, however. Danaus plexippus migrated in 

small numbe~, with only 20 individuals seen all 

season. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Oeneis chryxus caryi, White 

Fox (EAST), 29 May (JK). Oeneis 

uhleri varuna, Bjorkdale 

(NORTHEAST), 4 June (JK). 

MOTHS 

OLETHREUTIDAE - Acleris 

chalybeana, Ft. QuAppelle, 

PROVINCE, 13 June (RRH). 

NOTODONTIDAE - Nerice 

bidentata, Red Earth (NORTH), 21 

June (RRH). 

NOCTUIDAE - Phogophora 

iris, Ft. QuAppelle (SOUTH), 2 

June (RRH). Cucullia 

convexipennis, Ft. QuAppelle 

(second SK record), 13 July (RRH). 

Apharetra pyralis, Ft. QuAppelle 

(second SK record), 23 July (RRH). 

Melanchra assimilis, Ft. 

QuAppelle (SOUTH), 30 May 

(RRH). Panthea virginaria, three 

collected at ultraviolet light, 

Cypress Hills Provencial Park, 26- 

27 June 1983 (RRH, det GGA). 

MANITOBA 

Provincial Coordinator: PK. 

Contributor: PT. Records not otherwise 

annotated are attributable to PK. 

Summary: In southern Manitoba, spring and 

summer were "normal."according to the 

weatherman, but early spring was "slow" for 

butterflies. Following two bad years, butterfly 

populationsare recovering, some species even 

reaching abundance. Twenty-two species were 

observed in oneafternoon at the north end of 

Agassiz Provencial Forest, 23 July (PT). In 

agricultural areas, many formerly occurring 

species were not encountered, however, There 

was one error in the 1993 Season Summary for 

Manitoba, the provincial record for Euptoieta 

Hegesiaat Sandy Hook, 9 July 1980 is 

attributable to R Anderson, not Colin Hawkins 

as reported. 

MIGRANTS AND 

STRAYS 

The only noteworthy migration 

was a weak flight of Danaus 

plexippus. Nevertheless, more 

were observed than in 1993. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Oarisma powesheik, seven 

collected, common, Tolstoi, 6 July. 

Thymelicus lineola abundant, 

Northwest Angle Provencial Forest, 

20 July. Hesperia comma 

laurentina, 18 collected, 16 seen 

(usually scarce), Red Rock Lake, 

Whiteshell Provencial Forest, 5 

August. Pterourus canadensis less 

common than usual again. Pieris 

rapae had a long major flight in 

agricultural areas in the south, 

where it was abundant in August 

(PK has "never seen so many"). 

Colias eurytheme unusually 

scarce. Feniseca tarquinius, four 

collected, Sandilands Provencial 

Forest, 23 July; 3 seen, north end 

Agassiz Provencial Forest, 23 July 

(PT). Epidemia dorcas, two 

collected, eight seen, Stuartburn, 

15 August. Speyeria cybele, 4 

collected, 27 seen, Vita, 6 July. 

Speyeria aphrodite, very common, 

. Red Rock Lake, Whiteshell 

Provencial Forest, 5 August. 

Speyeria callippe calgariana, 4 

collected, 9 seen, Coulter, 1 July. 

Speyeria atlantis abundant, 

Northwest Angle Provencial Forest, 

23 July. Clossiana bellona, 11 

seen in one mile, north end 


(PT). Nymphalis vau-album, 4 

collected, 19 seen, Northwest 

Angle Provencial Forest, 23 July; 

18 seen, 5 road kills, north end 


(PT). Vanessa virginiensis, 1 

collected, Red Rock Lake, 

Whiteshell Provencial Forest, 5 

August. Vanessa cardui, none seen 

at all. V. atalanta, 3 collected, 6 

seen, Piney, 15 August. 

NORTH DAKOTA 

State Coordinator: RAR. 

Contributors: JL, TTO, BN, KR PS. If not 

otherwise indicated, records are attributableto 

RAR. 

Summary: Little fieldwork was reported fora 

third consecutive season. The summer was once 

again somewhat wetter than normal, though 

also somewhat warmer than the previous two. 

Populations of most resident species appeared 

to be on the rise following two seasons of lower 

than normal densities. Included below are54 

new county records. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Epargyreus clams, Cross 

Ranch, The Nature Consewancy 

Preserve, OLIVER County, 3 July 

(TTO). Thorybes pylades, 

BILLINGS County, 29 May. 

Ancyloxypha numitor, Arrowwood 

National Wildlife Refuge, 

STUTSMAN County, 29 July (PS). 

Hesperia dacotae continued 

generally reduced in numbers 

through north central counties 

(absent in several known 

localities), but reported emerging 

and common on Ft. Berthond 

Indian Reservation, McKenzie 

County, 26 June (KR), the same 

date it first appeared in McHenry 

County (RAR). Polites peckius, 

PIERCE County, 28 June. Polites 

themistocles, Cross Ranch, The 

Nature Consewancy Preserve, 

OLIVER County, 29 June (TTO). 

Polites origenes, Cross Ranch 

Nature Consewancy Presewe, 

OLIVER County, 2 July (TTO). 

Polites mystic, PIERCE County, 28 

June. Anatrytone logan, Jim Lake, 

Arrowwood National Wildlife 

Refuge, STUTSMAN County, 29 

July (PS). Euphyes vestris, Cross 

Ranch Nature Conservancy 


(TTO). Amblyscirtes vialis, Cross 



(TTO). Colias alexandra (yellow 

morph), BILLINGS County, 29 

May. Gaeides xanthoides, Cross 


Preserve, OLIVER County, 29 June 

(TTO); Nature Conservancy prairie 

preserve, SHERIDAN County, 6 

July (TTO). Epidemia helloides, 

BURLEIGH County, 7 July 1993 

(BN) . Satyrium liparops , 

STUTSMAN County, 30 June (JL). 

Callophrys sheridanii, DUNN 

County, 11 May. Strymon melinus, 

Cross Ranch Nature Conservancy 


(TTO). Everes comyntas, 



June. Celastrina argiolus, 


Refuge, STUTSMAN County, 1 July 

(JL); Cross Ranch Nature 

Consewancy Presewe, OLIVER 

County, 3 July (TTO). Lycaeides 

mlissa, DIVIDE County, 18 June. 

Plebejus saepiolus, DIVIDE 

County, 18 June. Euptoieta 

claudia, PIERCE County, 28 June; 

Camp Grafton, RAMSEY County, 

17 September. Speyeria 

aphrodite, Jim Lake, Arrowwood 

National Wildlife Refuge, 

STUTSMAN County, 15 July (JL); 

BURKE County, 29 July. Speyeria 

idalia, Cross Ranch Nature 

Consewancy Preserve, OLIVER 

County, NORTHWEST, 30 

June(TT0). Speyeria callippe, 

BURLEIGH County, 2 July 1993 

(BN); Nature Conservancy prairie 


July (TTO). Clossiana selene, 

PIERCE County, 28 June. 

Phyciodes tharos, Cross Ranch 

Nature Consewancy Preserve, 

OLIVER County, 1 July (TTO). 

Phyciodes pascoensis, STUTSMAN 

County, 30 June(JL); Cross Ranch 

Nature Conservancy Presewe, 

OLIVER County, 3 July (TTO); 

Nature Conservancy prairie 


July (TTO). Polygonia comma, 

PIERCE County, 28 June; Camp 

Grafton, RAMSEY County, 17 

September. Polygonia progne, 

Camp Grafton, RAMSEY County, 

17 September; Cross Ranch Nature 

Conservancy Presewe, OLIVER 

County, 2 July (TTO). Nymphalis 

cal$ornica, one seen, Camp 


September. Nymphalis antiopa, 



(TTO). Aglais milberti, Camp 


September; near Bismarck, 

BURLEIGH County, 25 September 

(BN). Basilarchia archippus, 


Presewe, OLIVER County, 3 July 

(TTO). Asterocampa celtis, Camp 


September. Satyrodes eurydice, 




(TTO). Megisto cymela, Cross 



(TTO). Coenonympha inornata, 



June; DMDE County, 18 June; 

Buffalo Lake Wildlife Management 

Area, PIERCE County, 28 June. 

Oeneis uhleri varuna, DMDE 

County, 18 June; BARNES County, 

9 June 1989 (JL); collected 4 miles 

south of Mirror Pool Wildlife 

Management Area, RICHLAND 

County, (SOUTHEAST), "May 

1994" (Dave Cuthrellfide TTO). 

Oeneis alberta, McHENRY County, 

13 May. Danaus plexippus, 

PIERCE County, 28 June. 

SOUTH DAKOTA 

State Coordinator: GMM 

Contributors: GGA, AJK, RLL, ML, KLO, TTO, 

RE5,SGW. All records not otherwise annotated 

areattributabletoGMM. 

Summary: GMM reportsthat a "near normal" 

season and an average collecting effort 

produced just 27 new county records. The most 

noteworthy event was a Speyeria idalia 

population boom that seemsto have occurred on 

suitable habitat all across the eastern twothirds 

of the state. The state total now stands 

at 173 species. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Pholisora catullus, UNION 

County, 6 July (KLO). 

Ancyloxypha numitor, CHARLES 

MIX County, 30 July; GREGORY 

County, 30 July; UNION County, 9 

July (TTO). Polites themistocles, 

TODD County, 3 July. Polites 

origenes rhena, TODD County, 3 

July. Atrytonopsis hianna turneri, 

CUSTER County, 29 May (AJK, 

GMM, RES). Pterourus 

multicaudatus, Badlands National 

Park, JACKSON County, 22 July 

(ML). Pontia occidentalis, 

Badlands National Park, JACKSON 

County, 25 August (ML). Colias 

philodice, GREGORY County, 30 

July. Eurema nicippe, third SD 

record, Palisades State Park, 

Minnehaha County, 22 August 

(SGW). Nathalis iole, BENNETT 

County, 26 June. Epidemia 

helloides, Hot Springs, FALL 

RIVER County, 28 May (RES). 

Celastrina argiolus, BENNETT 

County, 26 June; CHARLES MIX 

County, 30 July; GREGORY 

County, 30 July. Speyeria cybele 

cybele, BENNETT County, 26 June. 

Speyeria aphrodite alcestis, both 

sexes worn, Black Hills National 

Forest, Custer County, 24 August 

(LATE) (RLL). Speyeria idalia, 


County, 14 August (ML). 

Clossiana bellona toddi, UNION 

County, 9 July (TTO). Charidryas 

acastus, Badlands National Park, 

JACKSON County, 17 July (ML). 

Phyciodes pascoensis, Palisades 

State Park, Minnehaha County, 22 

August (SGW). Phyciodes batesii, 

fresh, Black Hills National Forest, 

Custer County, 24 August (RLL); 

"fairly fresh," Spearfish Canyon, 

Lawrence County, 25 August 

(LATE) (RLL). Aglais milberti, 


County, 3 April (ML). Vanessa 

virginiensis, TODD County, 1 

July. Vanessa annabella, Terry 

Peak, LAWRENCE County, 18 June 

(AJK); Badlands National Park, 

JACKSON County, 24 August (ML). 

Basilarchia archippus, Redbird 

Canyon, CUSTER County, 30 May 

(EARLY) (RES). Asterocampa 

celtis celtis, GREGORY County, 30 

July. Megisto cymela, Badlands 

National Park, PENNINGTON 

County, 5 July (ML). 

Coenonympha ochracea, 

common, Robinson Flats, Fall 

River County, 28 May (AJK, GMM, 

RES). Cwcyonis oetus charon, 

"very worn," Spearfish Canyon, 

Lawrence County, 25 August 

(LATE) (RLL). 

MOTHS 

SATURNIIDAE - Actias luna, 

Yankton, YANKTON County, 22 

August (SGW). 

NOCTUIDAE - Panthea 

gigantea, one collected, Mount 

Rushmore National Park, 

LAWRENCE County, 20 July 1958 

(collected by R. Leuschner, det R. 

Leuschner, confirmed GGA). 

Panthea acronyctoides, one 

collected, Deadwood, LAWRENCE 

County, 20 July 1958 (collected R. 

Leuschner, det R. Leuschner in lit 

as l angelica, confirmed I! 

gigantea by GGA. 

NEBRASKA 

State Coordinator: NED 

Contributors: JCG, JCJ, RLL, DRL, HGN, JMR 

KR SMS, RES, EV, KW. 

Summary: This was the long-awaited "ood 

year" after several years of depressing belowaverage 

populations and diversity. Juneflights 

in western Nebraska weregenerally twoto three 

weeks early, with Speyeriazereneand Polygonia 

satyrus being rediscovered after lengthy 

absences. A nice population of 5, caryaevorum 

was finally found in eastern Nebraska, and a 

Blaine County wetland contained good numbers 

of C. seleneand 5. eurydiceas well as Euphyes 

bimacula. A total of 120 species were 

encountered, including 149county and one state 

record, bringing the state total to 199 species, 

with anaverage of47specieslcounty. As usual, 

moth records werefew,althoughfour species 

were added to Kosche's 1989 "Partial List," 

bringing the state total to619 species. 

MIGRANTS AND 

STRAYS 

Hylephila phyleus, 15 

collected and seen, Furnas County, 

11 September (NED/DRL). 

Atalopedes campestris, abundant 

statewide after mid-June (NED). 

Zerene cesonia, occasional, 

Furnas, Keya Paha counties, 2 

July-20 September (NABAIXerces 

Butterfly Count, DRL). Phoebis 

sennae, HARLAN, HOWARD, 

Thayer, York counties, 2 to 15 

August (JCG, SMS, RW). Eurema 

lisa, 23 seen, Schramm State 

Recreation Area, Sarpy County, 23 

July (NABAKerces Butterfly 

Count); Thayer, York counties 

(JCG). Nathalis iole, common 

statewide, new from PERKINS, 

CHEYENNE and ARTHUR 

counties, 25 June to 30 September 

(RES, NED). Leptotes marina, one 

collected, Furnas County, 8 

September (DRL). Hemiargus 

isola, statewide from 29 May 

(NED). Libytheana bachmanii, 

one collected, Thayer County, 18 

June (JCG). Vanessa cardui, 

almost entirely absent from many 

areas the entire season; modest 

populations at best in other areas 

(NED). Vanessa annabella, 17 

miles S Valentine, CHERRY 

County, 3 October (KR). Danaus 

plexippus, "normal" year. Danaus 

gilippus, one seen, Furnas County, 

25 September (DRL). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Ancyloxypha numitor, 

unusually common and 

widespread, new from SEWARD, 

HALL, DEUEL, KEITH and NANCE 

counties, 18 June to 9 September 

(NED, JMR, EV, JCG, RES, RLL). 

Oarisma garita, usually rare or 

absent, but 12 collected and seen, 

Sowbelly Canyon, Sioux County, 

29 May (NED, JMR). Yvretta 

rhesus, common, Highway 71 at 

state line, KIMBALL County, 10 

May (RES). Hesperia uncas, two 

collected and seen, Bull Canyon, 

BANNER County, 28 May (NED/ 

JMR). H. leonardus pawnee, 

ARTHUR and GRANT counties, 9 

September (RES). Polites 

origenes, one collected, Harry 

Stmnk Lake, FRONTIER County, 5 

July 1992 (DRL); common, 

Niobrara Valley Preserve, Brown 

County, 2 July (NABAiXerces 

Butterfly Count). Pompeis verna, 

two collected, Highway 34hliddle 

Creek, SEWARD County, 21 June 

(SMS). Atrytone arogos, seen, 

Mormon Island, HALL County, 10 

June 1993 (EV). Poanes 

hobomok, common (usually scarce 

or absent), HALL, Buffalo counties, 

mid-June (NED, EV). Euphyes 

bimacula, one collected, north 

Loup River at Brewster, BLAINE 

County, 3 July (NED); seen, 

Mormon Island, HALL County, 1 

July 1993 (EV). Amblyscirtes 

vialis, one collected, Furnas 

County, 11 September (LATE) 

(DRL). Megathymus 

coloradensis, two seen, southeast 

of Enders Dam, CHASE County, 11 

May (RES). Heraclides 

cresphontes, almost common, 

YORK, NUCKOLLS counties, 16 to 

17 July (JCG). Pontia 

occidentalis, two collected, 3 miles 

east of Potter, CHEYENNE County, 

30 May (NED/JMR); one collected 

Bull Canyon, BANNER County, 1 

July (JMR). Colias alexandra, one 

collected, 3 miles east of Potter, 

CHEYENNE County, 30 May 

(JMR). Feniseca tarquinius, three 

collected and seen, 3 miles east of 

Hebron, THAYER County, 15 July 

(JCG). Chalceria rubida, five 


Potter, Cheyenne County, 30 May 

(EARLY) (NED/JMR). Epidemia 

helloides, CHEYENNE, CHASE, 

McPHERSON, DUNDY counties, 10 

May, 8 July, 9 to 10 September 

(RES). Satyrium acadicum, 

loners to abundant, new from 

BLAINE, BROWN, THAYER, 

DUNDY counties, 18 June to 8 July 

(NED, JCG, RES). S. 

caryaevorum, STATE, a few 

examples collected by Leussler in 

the 19308 have been identified 

from material in the Ohio State 

University collection; more 

recently, one collected, Highway 

34 at Middle Creek, SEWARD 

County, 16 July 1991 (SMS, det 

Robert K. Robbins); further 

investigation of same area yielded 

30-50 adults collected and seen, 

mostly nectaring on sumac, 18 to 

25 June (NED, JMR, SMS). 

Mitoura siva, one collected, 

Holbrook, FURNAS County, 7 May 

1992, in a population of M. 

gryneus (DRL). Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus, southeast of Enders 

Dam, CHASE County, 11 May 

(RES). Icaricia shasta, more than 

30 collected and seen, Sowbelly 

Canyon, Sioux County, 29 May; 12 


Potter, CHEYENNE County, 30 May 

(NED/JMR). Plebejus acmon, 

southeast of Enders Dam, CHASE 

County, and 11 miles southsoutheast 

of Grant, PERKINS 

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County, both 11 May (RES). 

Speyeria edwardsii, 16 collected 

and seen, 3 miles east of Potter, 

CHEYENNE County, 30 May 

(EARLY) (NEDIJMR); same 

locality, and also 1 to 2 miles north 

of Kimball, KIMBALL County, 8 

September (LATE) (RES). 

Speyeria coronis, one collected, 

Bull Canyon, Banner County, 28 

May (EARLY) (NEDIJMR). 

Speyeria zerene sinope, four 

collected, Bull Canyon, Banner 

County, 1 July (JMRISMS, det Paul 

C. Hammond). Thessalia fulvia, 

southeast of Enders Dam, CHASE 

County, 11 May (RES). Polygonia 

satyms, one collected Bull 

Canyon, BANNER County, 23 June 

(JMR). Vanessa viginiensis, 

common, new from SEWARD, 

HALL counties, May-mid June 

(NED, EV, RW). Satyrodes 

eurydice, five collected, north 

Loup River at Brewster, BLAINE 

County, 3 July (NED). Neominois 

ridingsii, one collected, east of I- 

80 rest area, CHEYENNE County, 

10 June (SMS). 

MOTHS 

TORTRICIDAE - Pandemis 

limitata, NANCE County, STATE, 

22 August (RLL). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Scopula 

inductata, NANCE County, STATE, 

22 August (RLL). 

NOCTUIDAE - Caenurgina 

distincta, NANCE County, STATE, 

22 August (RLL). Delete 1993 

report of Panthea wiraginaria, the 

specimen now being referred to P. 

gigantea, BROWN County, STATE, 

25 June 1993 (NED, det Gary G. 

Anweiler). Cucullia 

convexipennis, BUFFALO County, 

STATE, 18 July (NED). JCJ reports 

collecting 12 species of Catocala 

from Otoe County, among which 

C. ilia, C. parta, Catocala cara, C. 

amestris and C. arnica are first 

OTOE County records. 

Coordinator: None. Brief reports were filed by 

JCG and SGW. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Pholisora catullus, South 

Haven state rest area, Sumner 

County, 19 August (SGW). 

Epargyreus clams, mile 150 

Kansas Turnpike, Lyon County, 19 

August (SGW). Anatrytone logan, 

mile 150 Kansas Turnpike, Lyon 


Pteroums glaucus, near Cassoday, 

Butler County, 19 August (SGW). 

Papilio polyxenes, mile 170 

Kansas Turnpike, Osage County, 

19 August (SGW). Pieris rapae, 

near Cassoday, Butler County, 19 

August (SGW). Phoebis sennae 

observed at six locations along 1-35 

and Kansas Turnpike, in Butler, 

Chase and Lyon counties, 19 

August (SGW). Thessaliafulvia, 

collected 2 miles east of Lovewell 

Dam, JEWELL County, 29 May 

(JCG). Limenitis archippus, mile 

150 Kansas Turnpike, Lyon 


Cercyonis pegala, mile 150 Kansas 

Turnpike, Lyon County, 19 August 

(SGW). Danaus plexippus, 

Witchita, Sedgwick County, 19 

August (SGW). 

OKLAHOMA, 

TEXAS, ARKANSAS, 

LOUISIANA 

Coordinator: Ed Knudson (ECK) 8517 

Burkhart, Houston Texas 77055 

Contributors: Charles Bordelon Jr. (CB), 

Richard Boscoe (KB), Donald Bowman (DB), 

Steven Bransky (5B), Joseph F. Doyle Ill (JD), 

Joann Karges (JK), Ed Knudson (ECK), Michael 

LeFort (ML), Michael Lockwood (MLO), Jim 

Reiser (JK), Charles Sassine (C55), Steve 

Spomer (SS), Kay Stanford (KS), John 

Westerfield (JW), Steve Williams (SW). 

Note: In line with my conviction thatthezone 

coordinator position should be limited to 10 

(ten) years, this is my final report. Charles 

Bordelon Jr. (8440 Washington Boulevard, 

Beaumont, Texas 77707) will Lake over as Zone 6 

Coordinator for 1995. 

OKLAHOMA 

Contributors: K5,SW. No reports were 

received from resident collectors! Three new 

state records (butterflies). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Epargyreus clams. Erynnis 

baptisiae, LOGAN County, 

Guthrie, 19 August (SW). Yvretta 

cams, Y hesus, both STATE, 

CIMMARON County, 3.4 miles 

north of Kenton. 20 April (RS). 

Anatrytone logan lagus, 

CIMMARON County, 4 miles south 

of Boise City, 23 June (JV). 

Eurytides marcellus, CARTER 

County, near Ardmore, 19 August 

(SW). Papilio polyxenes asterius, 

LOGAN County, Guthrie, NOBLE 

County, south of Tonkawa, 19 

August (SW). Pieris rapae, Garvin 

County, near Pauls Valley, 19 

August (SW). Pontia sisymbrii, 

STATE; CIMMARON County, Black 

Mesa, 4 to 6 miles north-northwest 

of Kenton, 21 April (RS). Phoebis 

sennae, Love County, near 

Thackenrille, 19 August (SW). 

Cercyonis pegala, LOGAN County, 

Guthrie, 19 August (SW). Danaus 

plexippus, Noble County, near 

Tonkawa, 19 August (SW). 

TEXAS 

state records (4 butterflies, 31 moths), 2 U.S. 

records (1 butterfly, one moth). Continued mild 

winters have probably resulted in increasing 

colonization of south Texas habitats by tropical 

species. 

Corrections: Butterflies: Euphyesdion 

reported from Jefferson County, Sabine Pass, 21 

May (CB) isactually Euphyes bayensis, a new 

STATE record. Moths: The geometrid reported 

last year as Phrygionis incolorata restitota 

should have been IistedasP. rivignaria;other 

comments were correct. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Phocides palemon lilea, 

Cameron County, Audubon Sabal 

Palm Sanctuary, 4 August (0), 

ECK. Epargyreus clams, LAVACA 

County, 6 miles north Hallettsville, 

21 May. (SW). Polygonus Leo 

histrio, Cameron County, Palmito 

Hill, 7 April (CB). Chioides 

catillus albofasciatus, NUECES 

County, Cayo de Oso, 3 July (CS), 

KENEDY county, near Armstrong, 

8 August (SW). Chioides zilpa, 

KENEDY County, King Ranch Rest 

Area, 30 November (SW). 

Urbanus proteus , TnER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 24 September 

(CB). Astraptesfulgerator mul, 

Starr County, Fronton, 29 May 

(CS). Achalams toxeus, 

WASHINGTON County, Somerville 

Lake, 11 June 1972 (JV - this and 

many other new county records 

recently reported - most 

interesting included). Thorybes 

bathyllus, June through October, 

T confusis, April through August, 

TARRANT County (JK-this and 

most other new records from this 

county are taken from JK's 

checklist). Cogia outis, 

VALVERDE County, 10 miles 

southeast of Comstock, 9 May 

1972 (JV). Staphylus mazans, 

TARRANT County, June to 

September (JK). Achlyodes 

mithridates tamenund, TARRANT 

County, September and October 

(JK), Harris County, 14 August 

(SW). Grias stigmatica, Cameron 

County, Audubon Sabal Palm 

Sanctuary, 8 July (O)(SW). 

Fimochares mpt$asciatus, 


Palm Sanctuary, 7 October (CB). 

Chiomara asychis georgina, 

DWAL County, San Diego, 23 July 

(SW), Hidalgo County, Madero, 5 

November 1993, confined female 

ovipositing on Malphigia glabra, 

reared to Gesta gestainvisius, 

CAMERON County, Audubon Sabal 

Palm Sanctuary, 8 July (O)(SW). 

Erynnis juvenalis, LAVACA 

County, 21V, (SW). Erynnis 

horatius, FAYETTE County, 3 

miles south of Schulenburg, 21 

May, CHEROKEE County, 4 miles 

north of Rusk, 21 July, YOUNG 

County Jean, 27 August (SW). 

ErynnisJiLneralis, DWAL County 

23 July (SW). Erynnis baptisiae, 

LAVACA County 21 May (SW). 

Erynnis zamcco, TARRANT 

County March to October (JK). 

Pyrgus philetas, DUVAL, San 

Diego, 23 July (SW), 10 miles 

south of Freer, 11 October (JD). 

Heliopetes lavianus, UVALDE 

County ConCan, 1 October (JD). 

Heliopetes macaira, UVALDE 

County Nueces River, 4 September 

(JR). Pholisora catullus, LAVACA 

County 21 May (SW). Hesperopsis 

alpheus, Cameron County Palmito 

Hill, 5 August (CB). Vidius 

perigenes, Cameron County 

Palmito Hill, 7 April (CB), also 

from 14 October 1993, confirmed 

female ovipositing on unknown 

grass, reared to adults on 

Stenotephmm secundatum (RB). 

Nastra lherrninier, TARRANT 

County, April through September 

(JK). Nastra neamathla, 

WHARTON County, 2 miles 

SOUTHWEST, of Hungerford, 12 

August (SW). Nastra julia, DWAL 

County 23 July (SW). Decinea 

percosius, NUECES County. 

Corpus Christi, 3 May (CS). 

Oarisma edwardsii , Jeff Davis 

County Davis Mountains, 4 

October (CB). Hylephila phyleus, 

DUVAL County 23 July (SW). 

Hesperia viridis, Uvalde County, 

ConCan, 1 October (ECK). 

Hesperia attalus, BROWN County, 

Lake Brownwood State Park, 30 

August (O)(MR). Hesperia 

meskei, TARRANT County May, 

July, September, October (JK). 

Polites vibex DWAL County 23 

July (SW). Wallengrenia 

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egeremet, TARRANT County, May, 

October (JK). Atrytone arogos, 

WALLER County 3 miles northeast 

of Brookshire (SW). Anatrytone 

logan lagus, YOUNG County, Jean, 

27 August (SW). Poanes zabulon, 

TARRANT County, April through 

August (JK). Poanes yehl, 

Angelina County, Angelina 

National Forest, 13 September 

(CB). Poanes viator, TARRANT 

County May through August (JK). 

Poanes aaroni howardi, Jefferson 

County, Sabine Pass, 8 May, 23 

September (CB, ECK). Euphyes 

dion, RUSK County, 1 mile south 

of Kilgore, 3,4 July (CB). Euphyes 

bayensis, STATE, JEFFERSON 

County, Sabine Pass, 20 May, 12 

September (CB). Euphyes dukesi, 

TYLER County Big Thicket 

National Park, 24 September (CB). 

Atrytonopsis vierecki, PRESIDIO 

County 30 miles south of Marfa, 3 

May (JD). Amblyscirtes texanae, 

Brewster County 35 miles west of 

Sanderson, 5 May (JD). 

Amblyscirtes nereus, PRESIDIO 

County 30 miles south Marfa, 3 

May (JD). Amblyscirtes 

aesculapius, ANGELINA County, 

Angelina National Forest, 13 

September (CB). Lerodea 

dysaules, Cameron County, 

Brownsville, 4 December (ECK). 

Calpodes ethlius, JACKSON 

County, Gonzalez, 15 September 

(SW). Panoquina panoquinoides, 

HIDALGO County, Penitas, 7 

December (ECK). Panoquina 

ocola, TARRANT County, July to 

October (JK), WALLER County, 26 

June (S W)... Battus polydamas, 

Hidalgo County, Mission, 6, 7 

August (CB). Battus philenor, 

WISE, PARKER counties, 27 

August, FALLS County, 28 August 

(SW). Papilio polyxenes asterlus, 

HARTLEY, MOORE, HARDEMAN, 

WILBARGER, YOUNG, JACK, and 

WISE counties, 27 August, 

ROBERTSON County, 28 August 

(SW). Heraclides cresphontes, 

RUSK County, 1 mile south Kilgore 

(CB), PANOLA County, 13 June 

(SW). Heraclides ornythion, 

Hidalgo County, Madero, 14 

November 1993, confirmed female 

ovipositing on Xanthoxylum 

fagara, reared to adults on same 

(RB); Starr County, Salineno, 20 

March (JD), Santa Margarita 

Ranch, 9 April (CB). Pterourus 

glaucus, FALLS County, 28 August 

(SW). Papilio troilus, TARRANT 

County, May through September 

(JK). Papilio palamedes, KENEDY 

County, 13 September (SW). 

Ascia monuste phileta, 

JEFFERSON County, Beaumont, 

23 June (CB). Ganyra josephina, 

Hidalgo County, Penitas, 7 

December (CB, ECK). Falcapia 

midea, DUVAL County, 20 miles 

south of Freer, 6 March, STARR 

County, Sallneno, 20 March (JD). 

Colias philodice, MOORE, 

ARMSTRONG counties, 27 August 

(SW), TARRANT County, 11 

December (JK). Colias 

eurytheme, BRAZOS, DEWITT, 

KENEDY, KLEBERG, LAVACA, 

WHARTON, WILLACY counties 

(SW). Zerene cesonia, AUSTIN 

County (SW). Anteos chlorinde, 

STARR County, Roma, 6 August 

(CS), JIM HOGG County, 

Hebbronville, 7 August (CS), 

DWAL County, San Diego, 23 July 

(SW). Anteos maerula, Hidalgo 

County, Mission, 7 August (ECK). 

Phoebis sennae, FALLS, PANOLA 

counties (SW). Phoebis philea, 

STARR County, Roma, 6 August 

(CS), Cameron County, Audubon 

Sabal Palm Sanctuary, 6 October 

(CB). Eurema lisa, AUSTIN, 

BRAZOS, DEWITT, PANOLA 

counties (SW). Eurema proterpia, 

WILLACY County, 6 miles north 

Raymondville, 30 November (SW). 

Eurema boisduvalianum, 

Cameron County, Harlingen, 14 

April (SW). Eurema nicippe, 

CHEROKEE County, 31 July (SW). 

Eurema daira lydia, STARR 

County, 4 miles west of Sullivan 

City, 17 October 1974 (JV), 


December (O)(CB, ECK). Nathalis 

iole, JIM HOGG County, 

Hebbronville, 21 May (JD). 

Ministrymon azia, NEUCES 

County, 30 May (SW). Rekoa 

marius, Hidalgo County, Madero, 

14 November 1993, confirmed 

female ovipositing on Malphigia 

glabra, reared to adults on same 

(RB), also Penitas, 7 December 

(CB). Allosmaitia strophius, 


November 1993, reared on 

Malphigia glabra (as previous 

species)(RB). Calycopis cecrops, 

FAYETTE, LAVACA County, 21 

May (SW). Siderus tephraeus, 


December (ECK)(second US 

record). Cyanophrys goodsoni, 

Hidalgo County, Mission, 6 

December (CB). Incisalia henrici 

solata, Jeff Davis County, Fort 

Davis, 24 March 1994, reared from 

ova and larvae on Ungnadia 

speciosa (SS). Euristrymon 

favonlus ontario, DUVAL County, 

23 July (SW). Parrhasius m- 

album, UVALDE County, ConCan, 

1 October (CB, JD, ECK). 

Strymon melinus, JIM HOGG, 

Hebbronville, 1 October (JD), 

LAVACA County, 21 May (SW). 

Strymon alea, UVALDE County, 

ConCan, 1,2 October (CB, ECK), 


Palm Sanctuary, 8 July (O)(SW). 

Strymon bazochii, Hidalgo County, 

Penitas, 7 December (CB). 

Strymon rufoofusca, Hidalgo 

County, Penitas, 7 December (CB). 

Strymon seraplo, Brewster County 

25 miles southeast of Highway 385, 

23 March (SS). Brephidium exile, 

JIM HOGG, Hebbronville, 11 

October (JD). Brephidium 

isopthalma pseudofea, Jefferson, 

Sabine Pass, 8 May, 12 November 

(CB). Zizula cyna, DUVAL 

County, 23 July (SW), Cameron 


Sanctuary, 14 January (CB). 

Hemiagus isola alce, DWAL, 

JACKSON, LAVACA counties 

(SW). Celastrina argiolus, 

Tarrant County, Fort Worth, 19 

September (JK), RUSK County, 1 

mile south of Kilgore, 4 July (CB). 

Calephelis rawsoni, Uvalde 

County, ConCan, 1,2 October (CB, 

ECK). C. virginiensis, Tyler 

County, Kirby State Forest, 25 

September (CB). C. emesis, C. 

perditalis, JIM HOGG County, 

Hebbronville, 21 May, 11 October 

(JD). Lasaia sula peninsularis, 


Palm Sanctuary, 4 August (CB), 

Brownsville, 19 November 1993, 

confirmed female ovipositing on 

Prosopis reptans, reared to adults 

(RB). Emesis emesia, Hidalgo 

County, Penitas, 7 December (CB). 

E. tenedia, Starr County, Roma, 19 

October 1993, confirmed female 

ovipositing on Clematis 

drummondii, reared to adults 

(RB). Libytheana carinenta 

bachmanii, AUSTIN County (SW). 

Agraulis vanillae incarnata, 

FAYETTE, GRIMES, 28 August, JIM 

WELLS, WILLACY counties (SW). 

Dione moneta, NUECES County, 

North Padre Island, 3 April, 

KENEDY County, 25 miles south of 

King Ranch Rest Area, 5 November 

(SW). Dryadula phaetusa, 

LAVACA County, Moulton, 22 

November (JW). Dryas iulia 

moderata, LIVE OAK County, 

Mathis, 2 October (CS). 

Heliconius charitonius 

vasquezae, Cameron County, 

Arroyo Colorado, 15 November 

(SW), Audubon Sabal Palm 

Sanctuary, 5 August, 7 October 

(CB, ECK). Polygonia 

interrogationis, KENEDY County, 

10 September (SW). Junonia 

coenia, JACK, LAVACA counties. 

(SW). Junonia genoveva 

nigrosu&a, DUVAL County, San 

Diego, 23 July (SW); Anartia 

fatima, Hidalgo County, Madero, 5 


ovipositing on Ruellia sp., reared 

to adults (RB), also Starr County, 

Santa Margarita Ranch, 20 March 

(JD); Siproeta stelenes biplagiata, 



ovipositing on Ruellia sp., reared 

to adults (RB), also LIVE OAK 

County, Mathis, 2 October (CS), 

NUECES County, 16 April (SW), 

BROOKS County, Falfurrlas, 22 

October (CS). Euptoleta hegesia, 

DUVAL County, 27 July (SW). 

Anthanassa texana, LAVACA, 21 

May, DWAL, 23 July (SW); 

Anthanassa tulcis, Hidalgo 

County, Penltas, 7 December (CB); 

Anthanassa argentea (considered 

by some authors subspecies or 

synonym of atronia); USA, 

HIDALGO County, Penitas, 7 

December, two females (ECK, 

CB)(NOTE: This species has been 

collected in Texas before, at least 

twice, but has never before 

reported in Season Summary); 

Phyciodes tharos, COLORADO, 

DEWITT, 21 May, LAVACA, 21 May 

(SW); Charidryas nycteis, POLK 

County, Lake Livingston, 31 July 

(SW); Chlosyne janais, Uvalde 

County, ConCan, 1,2 October, 

abd. (ECK, CB, JD); Thessalla 

theona thekla, Jeff Davis County, 

Fort Davis, ex larvae on Castelleja 

integra, emerged 21 to 28 May 

(JD); Dyrnasla dymas, KINNEY 

County, Anachaco Mountain, 1 

October (CS); Basilarchia 

arthemis astyanax, WALKER, 8 

April, PANOLA, SHELBY, 23 June 

(SW); Basilarchia archippus 

watsoni, WALDE County, 

ConCan, 18 September (JD), 

BROOKS, 7 October, WHARTON, 7 

August (SW); B. rchippus 

hoffmanni, USA, HIDALGO 

County, Mission, 7 June (CB); 

Adelpha fessonia, Hidalgo County, 

Mission, 7 August (CB); Adelpha 

bredowii eulalla, Tarrant County, 

Fort Worth, 6,8 May (JK); 

Myscella ethusa, Hidalgo County, 

Mission, 6 August (rare this 

year)(CB); Dynamine dyonis, 

WALDE County, Nueces River, 4 

September (JR), also ConCan, 1 

October (O)(ECK, CB, JD); Biblis 

hyperia, DWAL County, 23 July 

(SW), Hidalgo County, Penitas, 7 

December (ECK, CB); Hamadryas 

februa, Hidalgo County, Penitas, 

17 October (CB), Cameron 


Sanctuary, 5 August (CB); Smyrna 

blomfildia, DEWITT County, 

Nordheim, 16 December 1990 

(JW); Memphis pithyusa, 


Palm Sanctuary, bait, 5 December 

(CB), Hidalgo County, Bentsen 

State Park (observed at bait), 6 

December (ECK); Asterocampa 

clyton, PANOLA County, 13 June 

(SW), Nueces County, Cayo de 

Oso, 17 April (form louisa)(CS); 

Asterocampa celtis, POLK, 

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counties, 31 July (SW); Doxocopa 

pavon, Hidalgo County, Madero, 

18 November 1993, confirmed 

female ovipositing on Celtis 

pallida, reared to adults (RB), also 

Mission, 7 December (CB); D. 

aure, Starr County, Roma, 25 

October 1993, confirmed female 

ovipositing on Celtis pallida, 

reared to adults (RB), Hidalgo 

County, Mission, 7 August (CB); 

Enodia creola, Angelina County, 

Angelina National Forest, 13 

September, Hardin County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 18 August 

(CB); Cyliopsis gemma, TARRANT 

County, Fort Worth, 29 October 

(JK); Hermeuptychla sosyblus, 

CHEROKEE County, 2 miles north 

of Rusk, 31 July (SW); Megisto 

rubricata, Cercyonis pegala 

texana, Brown County, Lake 

Brownwood State Park, 30 August 

(ECK, MR); Danaus plexippus, 

DALLAM, WISE, HARTLEY 

COUNTIES (SW); Danaus gilippus 

strigosus, BROOKS County (SW); 

Danaus eresimus montezuma, 

WILLACY County, Raymondville, 

10 September to 22 December 

(SW- on 10 September, road kill 

survey from Norias, Kenedy 

County, to Raymondville, showed 

70 percent of Danaids were this 

species). 

MOTHS 

LNCURVARIIDAE - 

Chalceopla simpliciella, STATE, 

TRAVIS County, Austin, 5 March 

1993 (JG); Adela caeruleella, 

TYLER County, Kirby State Forest, 

15 April (ECK); HELIOZELIDAE - 

Heliozela aesella, STATE, Tyler, 

Big Thicket National Park, 15 

March (ECK); 

OECOPHORIDAE - 

Pseuderotis obliterella, STATE, 

HARDIN County, Big Thicket 

National Park, 4 June (ECK); 

Cyphacma traglae, STATE, 


Palm Sanctuary, 30 December 

(Dave Wagner); 

COSMOPTERIGIDAE - 

Cosmopterix delicatella, C. acata, 

STATE, TYLER County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 14 May 

(ECK); C. fernaldella, STATE, 

JEFFERSON County, Sabine Pass, 

23 September (ECK); Walshia 

exemplata, STATE, TYLER 


September (ECK); GELECHLIDAE 

- Dichomeris laetitla, STATE, 

HARDIN County, Big Thicket 

National Park, 4 June (ECK); D. 

crepida, STATE, JEFFERSON 

County, Sabine Pass, 23 September 

(ECK). 

HELIODINIDAE - 

Cycloplasis panicifoliella, STATE, 


4 June (ECK); 

SESIIDAE - Vitacea 

scepsgormis, RUSK County, 1 

mile south of Kilgore, 3 July (CB); 

Mellitia calabaza, JEFFERSON 

County, Beaumont, reared on 

garden squash, emerged 28 July 

(CB); Synanthedons citula, S. 

acerni, TYLER County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 4 

September (CB); S. decipiens, 


3 August (CB); S. exitiosa, 

BRISCOE County, Caprock 

Canyon State Park, 29 August, bait 

(ECK); S. pictipes, TYLER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 25 March, bait 

(CB); S. rubrofascia, STATE, 

TYLER County, Big Thicket 

National Park, 15 April to 15 May, 

bait (ECK, CB); Podosesia 

syringae, JEFFERSON County, 

Beaumont, 25 March, bait (CB); 

Carmenta mimuli, JEFF DAVIS 

County, Fort Davis, 4 October, bait 

(CB, ECK); 

COSSIDAE - Inguromorpha 

arcgera, Cameron County, 

Audubon Sabal Palm Sanctuary, 5 

August (CB); Acossus connectus, 

STARR County, Santa Margarita 

Ranch, 9 April (CB); 

TORTRICIDAE - Episimus 

submicans, CAMERON County, 


December (ECK); Ahmosia 

galbinea, EL PASO, Hueco Tanks 

State Park, 28 May (ECK); Phaneta 

umbrastriana, TYLER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 15 April (ECK); 

Choristoneura parallela, TYLER 

County, Big Thicket National Park, 

2,24 September (ECK); 

COCHYLIDAE - Lorita 

baccharivora, TYLER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 15 April (ECK); 

PYRALIDAE -- Langessa 

nomophilalis, STATE, VAL VERDE 

County, Dolan Falls, 29 May 

(CRN). Oqelophila callista, Val 

Verde County, Del Rio, 4 October 

(ECK); Heliothelopsis 

costipunctalis, UVALDE County, 

ConCan, 1 October (ECK); Hellula 

kempae, STATE, JEFFERSON 

County, Sabine Pass, 11 June 

(ECK); Phlyctaenia leuschneri, 

STATE, TYLER County, Kirby State 

Forest, 15 April (ECK); Pyrausta 

rubricalis, STATE, HARRIS 

County, Spring Valley, 17 

September (ECK); Carectocultus 

dominicki, JEFFERSON County, 

30 July (CB), 22 October (ECK); 

Epina dichromelia, STATE, 


11 June (ECK, CB); Omphalocera 

munroei, STATE, TYLER County, 

Big Thicket National Park, 14 May 

(ECK); Salebriaria 

sqmmopalpiella, STATE, HARDIN 


12 March (ECK); Nephopterix 

crass~asciella, STATE, TYLER 


April (ECK); Pseudocabotia 

balconiensis, Uvalde County, 

ConCan, 1, 2 October (ECK); 

Homosassa includella, STATE, 


15 April (ECK). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Semlothisa 

distribuaria, Nacogdoches County, 

3 miles south Nacogdoches, 4 June 

(SW). Pero zalissaria, Jefferson 

County, Sabine Pass, 30 July, 23 

September, 22 October (CB, ECK). 

Lomographa vestallata, 

VICTORIA County, Victoria, 12 

May (SW); Plataea blanchardaria, 

Uvalde County, ConCan, 1,2 

October, ValVerde County, Del Rio, 

4 October, abd. (ECK, CB); 

Scopula ordinata, TYLER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 3 September 

(ECK). Eupithecia tenmta, JEFF 

DAVIS County, Fort Davis, 3 

October (ECK). 


Apotolype bianchardi, Cameron 


Sanctuary, 10 May (DB); Tolype 

mayelisae, STARR County, Falcon 

State Park, 8 May (DB); 

Malacosoma disstria, M. 

mericanum, Nacodgoches, 3 to 13 

June (SW). 

SATURNIIDAE - 

Sphingicampa blanchardi, 


Palm Sanctuary, 6 April, 6 October 

(CB); Sphingicampa albolineata, 

Cimeron County, Audubon Sabal 

Palm Sanctuary, 4 August, 6 

October (CB); Dryocampa 

rubicunda, GREGG County, 4 

June, PANOLA County, 13 June 

(SW); Hemileuca juno, El Paso, 29 

October (both sexes at 

lights)(ECK); Hemileuca 

chinatiensis, TERREL County, 

Sanderson, 4 October (O)(ECK, 

CB); Automeris io , LAVACA 

County, Hallettsville, 25 April 

(SW), forma texana, Cameron 


Sanctuary, 6 October (CB). 

Automeris louisiana, STATE, 


11 June (MR- larva on Scirpus 

sp.), 3O'July, 23 September (adults 

at light) (CB, ECK); Rothschildia 

forbesi, Cameron County, 


October (CB); Eupackardia 

calleta, ZAPATA County, 2 miles 

east of Zapata, 5 October (O)(CB); 

Callosamia promethea, 

JEFFERSON County, 8 March, 

HARDIN, TYLER counties, 9 April 

(CB); 

SPHINGIDAE - Dolba 

hyloeus, HARDIN County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 25 June, 

nectaring on Cephalanthus 

occidentalis at dusk (CB); 

Ceratomia hageni, NUECES 

County, Corpus Christi, 30 March 

(SW); Sphinx dollii, UVALDE 

County, ConCan, 2 October (ECK); 

Sphinx libocedrus, BRISCOE 

County, Caprock Canyon State 

Park, 29 August (ECK); Paonias 

excaecatus, NACOGODCHES 

County, 4 June (SW); Pachysphinx 

modesta, BRISCOE County, 

Caprock Canyon State Park, 29 

August (ECK); Erinnyis crameri, 

JEFF DAVIS County, Davis 

Mountain Resort, 25 July (David 

Marqua); Erinnyis obscura, 

KENEDY County, 15 November, 

KLEBERG County (SW); Erinnyis 

domingonis, KLEBERG County, 

Kingsville, 5 December (CB); 

Perigonia lusca, STATE, STARR 

County, Falcon State Park, 8 May 

(DB); Enyo lugubris, JEFFERSON 

County, Sabine Pass, 23 

September, nectaring on Gaura 

lindheimeri at dusk (CB, ECK); 

Hemaris dgfinis, BRISCOE 

County, Caprock Canyon State 

Park, 29 August (O)(ECK); 

Specodina abbotti, RUSK County, 

1 mile south of Kilgore, 3 July 

(CB); Cauthetia spuria, Cameron 


Sanctuary, 14 January, 8 April, 6 

October, 5 December (CB); 

NOTODONTIDAE - Cerura 

scitiscripta, BRISCOE County, 

Caprock Canyon State Park, 28,29 

August(ECK); Peridea femginea, 

RUSK County, 1 mile south of 

Kilgore, 3,4 July (CB); Schizura 

concinna, HARDIN County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 15 April 

(ECK); Oligocentria 

semirufescens, TYLER County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 4 June (CB, 

ECK); Hyparpax aurora, TYLER 


15 April (ECK, CB); 

ARCTIIDAE - Lycomorpha 

pholus, WALDE County, ConCan, 

1 October (ECK); Eudesmia arida, 

VALVERDE County, Del Rio, 4 

October (CB); Haploa colona, 

TYLER County, Big Thicket 

National Park, 14 May (ECK); 

Estigmene acrea, extremely 

abundant and found in following 

counties: CAMERON, KENEDY, 

NUECES, ARANSAS, REFUGIO, 

SAN PATRICIO, VICTORIA, 

WHARTON, FORT BEND, 

WALLER, Harris, LIBERTY, 

GONZALEZ, Nacogdoches, Hidalgo 

(SW), TYLER, AUSTIN, FAYETTE, 

UVALDE, VALVERDE, Jeff Davis, 

KINNEY (1 to 5 October, ECK), 

GUADALWE, Bexar (20,21 

January, 1995 - ECK); Ecpantheria 

mwina, Cameron County, 


December, Hidalgo County, 

Mission, 6 August, mature larva, 

June 1995 


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emerged 30 September (CB); 

Grammia dons, TYLER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 14 March 

(ECK); 

NOCTUIDAE - Polypogon 

atrilineella, HARDIN County, Big 


(ECK); Renia nemoralis, TYLER 


September (ECK); Hypena 

ramstadtii, STATE, JEFFERSON 

County, Beaumont, 25 January 

(CB), HARDIN County, Big Thicket 

National Park, 19 February (ECK); 

Hypena abjuralis, STARR County, 

Roma, 5 October (CB); Mursa 

subrufa, Cameron County, 


January (ECK); Gabara gigantea, 


11 June (ECK); Litoprosopus 

confligens, STATE, CAMERON 


Sanctuary, 4 October (bait)(ECK); 

Janseodes melanospila, STATE, 


Palm Sanctuary, 4 October (ECK); 

Epitausa prona, CAMERON 


Sanctuary, 5 October (CB); Itomia 

opistographa, USA, CAMERON 


Sanctuary, 4, 5 October (bait and 

W)(CB, ECK); Thysania zenobia, 


Palm Sanctuary, 4 August 

(bait)(CB, ECK); Lesmone 

formularis, Cameron County, 


October (ECK); Kakopoda cincta, 

Hidalgo County, Bentsen State 

Park, 6 August (bait)(ECK); 

Dysgonia consobrina, STATE, 


13 March (CB, ECK); Ptichodes 

herbarum, MEDINA County, 

Hondo Creek, larva on Indigofera 

lindheimeriana, emerged 7 July 

(JD), Doryodes tenuistriga, 


22 October (ECK); Spiloloma 

lunilinea, CHAMBERS County, 

Baytown, 6 June (CB); Catocala 

texarkana, JEFFERSON County, 

Beaumont, 11 May (CB); C. orba, 

C. andromedae, C. muliercula, C. 

lincolnana, C. grynea, C. 

connubialis, C. similis, C. 

gracilis, Hardin County, Big 


(bait)(CB, ECK); C. mira, POLK 


4 June (CB); Baileya australis, 

Medina County, Hondo Creek, 

larva on Juglans microcarpa, 

emerged 5 July (JD); Acontia 

dacia, Cameron County, Audubon 

Sabal Palm Sanctuary, 4 August 

(CB, ECK); Bagisara rectifascia, 

Coma1 County, New Braunfels, 

larva on Pavonia lasiopetala, and 

Malvaviscus arboreus 

drummondii, emerged, 21, 22 

June (JD); Callopistria 

mollissima, TYLER County, Big 


(CB); C. cordata, TYLER County, 

Kirby State Forest, 16 April (CB, 

ECK); Micrathetis dasarada, 


Palm Sanctuary, 4 October (ECK); 

Spodoptera dolichos common this 

year, Cameron, WILLACY, 

KENEDY, NEUCES counties, 6 

December (SW), HARDIN County, 


November (bait)(ECK), UVALDE 

County, ConCan, 1 October (CB); 

Elaphria geogei, HARDIN County, 


March (CB); Stibadium spurnosum, 

BRISCOE County, Caprock 

Canyon State Park, 29 August 

(ECK); S. manti, Uvalde County, 

ConCan, 1,2 October (CB, ECK); 

S. aureolum, Jeff Davis County, 

Fort Davis, 3 October (ECK); 

Plagiomimicus pityochromus, 

JEFFERSON County, Beaumont, 

13 September (CB); Gloanna 

hecate, EL PASO County, Franklin 

Mountains State Park, 29 May 

(ECK); Cephalospargeta elongata, 

Cameron County, 4 August (ECK), 

Eviridemas minuta, WALDE 

County, ConCan, 2 October (ECK); 

Chaetaglaea sericea, TYLER 


November (ECK); Psaphida 

grandis, HARDIN County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 19 February 

(ECK); Oncocnemis augustus, 0. 

baszfugens, 0. obscurata, El Paso 

County, Hueco Tanks State Park, 

29 October (ECK); Leucanla 

linita, JEFFERSON County, Sabine 

Pass, 23 March, 11 June, 23 

September (CB, ECK); Egira 

alternata , NUECES County, 

Robstown, 26 January (SW); 

Tricholita baranca, Uvalde 

County, ConCan, 1,2 October 

(abd.)(ECK, CB); Manruta 

elingua, STATE, EL PAS0 County, 

Hueco Tanks State Park, 29 

October (ECK); Euxoa sculptilis, 

Ewcoa siccata, Euxoa olivia, El 

Paso, Hueco Tanko State Park, 29 

October (ECK); Hemleuxoa 

rudens, TYLER County, Big 

Thicket National Park, 19 February 

(CB); Choephorafungorum, 

KENEDY County, 15 November 

(SW); Rhodoecia aurantiago, 


2 September (ECK); Heliothis 

turbatus, TYLER County, Kirby 

State Forest, 2 September (CB, 

ECK); Schinia curnatilis, STATE, 

S. rengormis, S. nundina, S. 

gaurae, S. regia, S. mortua, S. 

bicuspids, BRISCOE County, 

Caprock Canyon State Park, 29 

August (ECK); S. petulans, STATE, 

S. gloriosa, S. crenilinea, TYLER 

County, Kirby State Forest, 2,3 

September (CB, ECK); S. accessa, 

S. chrysella, S. alencis, S. 

citrinella, Val Verde County, Del 

Rio, 4 October (ECK, CB); S. 

jaguarina, KENEDY County, King 

Ranch Rest Area, 5 November 

(SW). 

ARKANSAS 

Contributors: SB (with Martin Off (MO). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Autochton cellus, Pope 

County, Ozark National Forest, 

State Road 27,28 May (SB); 

Achalarus lyciades, Baxter 

County, Country Life Mobile Park, 

23 May, Marion County, Bull 

Shoals Lake, 23 to 30 May (SB); 

Erynnisjuvenalis, Baxter County, 

Country Life Mobile Park, 28 April 

(MO); Erynnis martialis, 

Thorybes pylades, T. bathyllus, 

Yan Buren County, Brock Creek. 

Campsite, 28 May (SB); 

Atalopedes campestris huron, 

Polites origenes, Marion County, 

Bull Shoals Lake, 29 May (SB); 

Poanes zabulon, l hobomok, Pope 

County, Ozark National Forest, 

State Road 27,28 May (SB); 

Amblyscirtes vialis, Van Buren 

County, Brock Creek. Campsite, 

28 May, Marion County, Bull 

Shoals Lake, 23 May (SB); 

Amblyscirtes linda, Pope County, 

Ozark National Forest, State Road 

27, 28 May (SB); Heraclides 

cresphontes, Pope County, Ozark 

National Forest, State Road 27, 28 

May, Marion County, Bull Shoals 

Lake, 26 to 30 May (SB); 

Pterourus glaucus, Falcapica 

midea, Baxter County, Country 

Life Mobile Park, 28 April, 17 April 

(MO); Zerene cesonia, Marion 

County, Bull Shoals Lake, 29,30 

May (SB); Satyrium calanus, 

Baxter County, Country Life 

Mobile Park, 11 June (MO), Marion 

County, Bull Shoals Lake, 23 May 

(SB); Calycopis cecrops, Leptotes 

marina, Marion County, Bull 

Shoals Lake, 23 to 30 May, 26 May 

(SB); Anaea andria, POPE County, 


27,28 May, Baxter County, 

Country Life Mobile Park, 26 May, 

Marion County, Bull Shoals 

Lake,23V, (SB); Asterocampa 

celtis, VAN BUREN County, Brock 

Creek. Campsite, 28 May (SB). 

MOTHS 

OECOPHORIDAE- Ethmia 

trifurcella, Marion County, Bull 

Shoals Lake, 30 May (SB). 

TORTRICIDAE - 

Argyrotaenia allsellana, Marion 

County, Bull Shoals Lake, 23,24 

May (SB). 

ZYGAENIDAE - Pyromorpha 

dimidiata, Marion County, Bull 


LIMACODIDAE - Packardia 

geminata, Pope County, Ozark 


May (SB). 

THYRIDIDAE - Thyris 

sepulchralis, Van Buren County, 

Brock Creek. Campsite, 27 May 

(SB); 

DREPANIDAE - Oreta rosea, 

Marion County, Bull Shoals Lake, 

23 May (SB). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Heliomata 

cycladata, Heterophelps 

refusaria, Pope County, Ozark 


May (SB). Semlothisa 

multilineata, Marion County, Bull 


Anacamptodes vellivolata, 

Euchlaena johnsonaria, Van 

Buren County, Brock Creek, 

Campsite, 27 May (SB). Plagodis 

alcoolaria, Baxter County, 

Country Life Mobile Park, 22 May 

(MO). 

EPIPLEMIDAE - Callizzia 

amorata, Marion County, Bull 


ARCTIIDAE - Grammia 

anna, Pope County, Ozark 


May, Marion County, Bull Shoals 

Lake, 23 to 30 May (SB). 

Grammia oithona, Apantesis 

nais, Marion County, Bull Shoals 

Lake, 24 May (SB). Grammia 

figurata, Baxter County, Country 

Life Mobile Park, 15, 21 May (MO). 


Misogada unicolor, Marion 


(SB). 

NOCTUIDAE - Zale horrida, 

Baxter County, Country Life 

Mobile Park, 1,15 May (MO). 

Celipterafrustulum, Marion 


(SB). Euplexia benesimilis, 

Euagrotis lubricans, Pope County, 


27,27 May (SB). 

Contributofi: 

LOUISIANA 

ML, MLO, SW. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Epargyreus clams, BOSSIER 

Parish, near Bossler City, 13 June 

(SW). Amblyscirtes vialis, 

RICHLAND Parish, on I-20,13 

June (SVf). Battus philenor, 

WEST CARROLL Parish, Poverty 

Point State Commemorative Area, 

13 June (SW). Papilio polyxenes 

asterius, WEBSTER Parish, near 

Minden, 13 June (SW). Heraclides 

cresphontes, WEBSTER Parish, 

near Minden, 13 June (SW). 

Pterourus glaucus, LINCOLN 

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Ju

Parish, Rustin, 13 June (SW). F! 

troilus, RICHLAND Parish, Delhi, 


Point State Commemorative Area, 

13 June (SW). Colias eurytheme, 


Point State Commemorative Area. 

13 June (SW). Junonia coenia, 

BOSSIER Parish, near Bossier City, 

13 June (SW). Basilarchia 

arthemis astyanax, Asterocampa 

celtis, WEST CARROLL Parish, 

Poverty Point State 

Commemorative Area, 13 June 

(SW). Anthanassa texana 

seminole, Terrebonne Parish, 

Houma, 2 October (ML). 

Brephidium isopthalma 

pseudofea, Jefferson Parish, 2 

miles north of Chenier, 25 

September (ML). Danaus gilippus 

berenice, LAFOURCHE PARISH, 

Golden Meadow, 25 August, 

JEFFERSON Parish, Chenler, 4 

September, Grand Isle, 25 

September (ML), 27 November, 1 

to 19 December (MLO). Danaus 

gilippus strigosus, JEFFERSON 

Parish, Grand Isle, 27 November to 

19 December (MLO). 

MOTHS 

Note: These are all SOUTHWEST, unless 

otherwise noted. 

MEGALOPYGIDAE - Lagoa 

crispata, West Baton Rouge Parish, 

Maringouin, 18 May. 

PYRALIDAE - Phlyctaenia 

coronata, Diacme elealis, 

Richland Parish, Delhi, 13 June, 

Munroessa gyralis, Epipagis 

huronalis, Spoladea recurvalis, 

West Baton Rouge Parish, 

Maringouin, 18 May 

(SOUTHWEST). 

GEOMETRIDAE - 

Lomographa vestallata, West 

Baton Rouge Parish, Maringouin, 

18 May. Besma quercivoraria, 

Nepytla semiclusaria, St. 

Tammany Parish, Slidell, 13 May; 

Hethemia pistaciaria, West Carroll 

Parish, Poverty Point State 

Commemorative Area, 13 June; 

LASIOCAMPIDAE - Artace 

cribraria, West Carroll Parish, 



SATURNIIDAE - Sphingicampa 

bisecta, West Baton Rouge, 

Maringouin, 18 May; Dryocampa 

rubicunda, Automeris io, 

Ouachita Parish, near Munroe, 13 

June; Automeris louisiana, 

Lafourche Parish, Leeville, 10 

March, 1,15 June, 25 July (ML); 

SPHINGIDAE -Xylophanes 

tersa, St. Tammany, Slidell, 13 

May; 

NOTODONTIDAE - Datana 

drexelii, Richland Parish, Delhi, 13 

June; 

ARCTIIDAE - Hypoprepla 

fucosa, West Carroll Parish, 



NOCTUIDAE - Ascalapha 

odorata, 140 mile south 

Intercoastal City, on Offshore rig!, 

9 July (ML); Caenurgina 

crassluscula, Richland Parish, 

Delhi, 13 June (SW). 

Coordinator: Ross Layberry (Kt). 

Contributors: Robert Bowles (RB); J. Peter 

Chapman (JC); Steve Charbonneau (SC); 

Barbara N. Charlton; Bob Curry (6C);Tammy 

Dobbie; Robert Dobos;Yves-Pascal Dion (YPD); 

Bill Edmunds (BE); Nick Escott (NE); Joseph 

Faggan; James N. Flynn; Alan Hanks; Barry 

Harrison; Anne Hayward-Farmer; Quimby Hess; 

G.Tom Hince (GH); Gail Hutchings (GH); Tom 

lkeda (TI); Mark W. Jennings (MJ); Joseph 

Jones; Kenn Kauffman; Carolyn D. King (CK); Ben 

and Brenda Kulon; William Lamond (WL); 

Francois Lessard (FL); Mac P. McAlpine (MPM); 

John A. Macdonald (JM); Paul K. McGaw (PM); 

Bill and Irene Mcllveen (BM); Laurel Mclvor; Kevin 

McLAugusthlin; Ethen J. Meleg; Matt Mills 

(MM); David Milson; Steven Pike; Paul D. Pratt 

(PP); Alfred H. Rider; Dennis F. Rupert;Tim Sabo 

(TS); Keith Sealy; L. Sealy: Jonathan M. Sims 

(J5); Jeff Skevington; Ken Stead; Michael van 

der Poorten; Nancy van der Poorten; Lloyd 

Taman; C. Vardy; Gordon Vogg; Robert L. 

Waldhuber; Alan Wormington (AW). 

MIGRANTS 

Populations of Danaus 

plexippus and Vanessa atalanta 

were about average, Vanessa 

virginiensis, lower than-normal, 

and Vanessa cardui, almost nonexistent. 

Eurema lisa reached 

northern Ontario, and Urbanus 

proteus reached Canada for the 

first time. Plexippus were 

reported from many locations 

much later than usual, into 

Deeember; one tagged in Toronto 

on 8 October was recovered from 

the windshield of a truck in New 

Port Richey, Florida on 25 

November (BE). 

ONTARIO 

BUTTERFLIES 

lhbanus Proteus, one very 

fresh taken on Spotted Kna~weed 

at West Beach, Point Pel% 

County, 7 August, FIRST 

ONTARIO AND CANADA (AW, PM, 

CK, JM); Ojibway Prairie, Windsor, 

Essex County, 18 September (GH). 

Erynnis martialis, Bronte 

Provincial Park, Halton County, 29 

June (BM); Hylephila phyleus, 

Point Pelee, 1 June, EARLY (WL); 

southeast of Leamington, Essex 

County, 29 October, LATE (AW). 

Polites origines. S~rinkarden 

August (AW). Colias philodice, 

one fresh male at Ottawa, Carleton 

County, November 16, LATE (RL). 

Phoebis sennae, Point Pelee, 18 

September, FIRST SINCE 1953 

(TS, AW), 22 October, LATE (AW). 

Eurema lisa, 40 km north 

Geraldton, Thunder Bay District, 

21 June, DISTRICT; 30 km 

northwest of Cochrane, Cochrane 

District, 22 June, DISTRICT (TI). 

Gaeides xanthoides, Rainy River 

train station, Rainy River District, 

July 12,14,15 (AW, BC, WL); Fort 

Frances, Rainy River District, July 

15 (AW). Epidemia epixanthe, 

18.6 km W of Mine Centre, Rainy 

River District, 15 July, DISTRICT 

(WL, BC). Epidemia dorcas, 

Finland, Rainy River District, 12 

July, SECOND DISTRICT (AW). 

Satyrium acadicum, Highway 17 

and 71, Kenora District, 10 July, 

DISTRICT (AW). Satyrium 

calanus, Budreau's Point, Rainy 

River District, 13 July, DISTRICT 

(AW). Strymon melinus, Sleeman, 

Rainy River District, 12 July, 

SECOND NORTHERN ONTARIO 

(WL, BC, AW). Euptoieta Claudia, 

Silver Lake, Haliburton County, 15 

June, COUNTY (RB); 70 km north 

of Savant Lake, Thunder Bay 

District, 20 June (NE). Phyciodes 

batesii, Sleeman, Rainy River 

District, 12 July, SECOND 

DISTRICT (AW). Euphydryas 

phaeton, Point Pelee, 30 June, 

FIRST POINT PELEE RECORD 

SINCE 1931 (AW). Nymphalis 

vaualbum, Aldershot, Halton 

County, December 26, LATE 

RECORD FOR CANADA (MJ, GH, 

MM). Nymphalis antiopa, Point 

Pelee, November 16, LATE 

RECORD FOR POINT PELEE (JS). 

Vanessa atalanta, Point Pelee, 

March 23, EARLY (GH); November 

17, LATE (AW). Junonia coenia, 

Pont Pelee, November 17, LATE 

(JS). . , 

Basilarchia archippus, . . Black 

Bay Peninsula, Lyon Township, 

Thunder Bay District, 10 July, first 

in twenty years of collecting, 

FOURTH DISTRICT RECORD 

(NE). Enodiaanthedon, Fitzroy 

Harbour, Carleton County, 7 July, 

one specimen still active at 8.40 

pm (RL). Danaus plexippus, Point 

Pelee, April 27, EARLY (PP); 

Thedford, Lambton County, 

December 17, LATE (MPM, JC, 

SC); Fitzroy Harbour, Carleton 

County, 7 July and 16 August, 

larvae abundant on Swamp 

Milkweed Asclepias incarnata in 

beaver pond, rare to absent on 

nearby A. syriaca. First and 

second instar larvae ate only 

flowers. Pupation often on the 

milkweed, as larvae unable to 

leave, plants growing in water 

(RL). 

QUEBEC 

BUTTERFLIES 

Epargmeus clams, Lac 

Manny, Sheen Township, Pontiac 

County, 9 July, NORTHWEST 

RECORD FOR QUEBEC AND 

ONTARIO (RL). Thymelicus 

lineola, Baie-Trinit6, Saguenay 

County, 28 July EASTERN 

RECORD FOR NORTH SHORE 

(FL). Poanes massasoit, Poanes 

viator and Euphyes dion, common 

at St-Zotique, Soulanges County, 

12, 14 July (YPD). Papilio 

brevicauda, larvae on Heracleum 

maximum at Pointe-Lebel, 

Saguenay Countx 20 July, and 

Matane, Matane County, 21 July 

and on Ligusticum scothicum at 

Pointe-au-Ere, Rimouski County, 

21 July (YPD). F! brevicauda 

(ovipositing on H. maximum), 

Pieris napi, Colias eurytheme, C. 

pelidne and Speyeria atlantis, 

Petite-Ile-au-Marteau, Mingan 

Archipelago National Park, 

Saguenay County, 26 July, FIRST 

RECORDS FOR PARK (FL). Pieris 

napi, three generations at Pont- 

Rouge, Quebec County, 15 May to 

18 June, 4 July to 10 August and 

16 August to 5 September (YPD). 

Satyrium caryaevorum, Aylrner 

and Luskville Falls, Gatineau 

County, 10, 11 July (YPD). 

Plebejus saepiolus, Havre-St- 

Pierre, Saguenay County, 27 July, 

EASTERN RECORD FOR QUEBEC 

(FL). Clossianafieija, 4 locations 

on Highway 175, Parc-des- 

Laurentides, Montmorency No. 1 

County, 7, 13 June, 4 July, 

COUNTY (YPD). Satyrodes 

appalachia, Ayer's Cliff, Stanstead 

County, 12 July, COUNTY (YPD). 

Oeneis chryxus, two locations on 

Highway 175, Parc-des- 

Laurentides, Montmorency No. 1 

County, 4 July, mating pairs at 

noon, 14.30 and 14.50, COUNTY 

(YPD). 

June 1995 


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MISSOURI, 

KENTUCKY, WEST 

VIRGINIA, OHIO, 

INDIANA, ILLINOIS, 

IOWA, MINNESOTA, 

WISCONSIN, 

MICHIGAN. 

Coordinator: Les Ferge (IF). 

Contributors: Valeriu Albu (VA), George Balogh 

(GB),Tom Barina (TB), Bob Borth (BB),Thomas 

W. Carr (TWC),Charles V. Covell Jr. (CVC), Jim 

Ebner (JE), MichaelandTodd Gilllgan (M&TG), 

Ronald V. Harms (RH), Edward (Ted) Herig (EH), 

Terry Herig (TH), Michael Kielb (MK), Harry King 

(HK), Lemy Koehn (LK), Robert Kriegle (RK), Karl 

and Dorothy Legler (K&DL), Eric H. Metzler 

(EHM), Mogens C. Nielsen (MN), Tim Orwig (TO), 

James C. Parkinson (JCP), Chris Richards (CR), 

Roy W. Rings (RWR),Tom Rocheleau (TR), Ron F. 

Rockwell (RFR), Mark 5. Rzeszotarski (MSR), 

Clark Schultz (CS), James A. Scott (JAS), John 

Shuey (J5), Ernest M. Shull (ES), Ray E. 

Stanford (RES), Scott and Ann Swengel(S&AS), 

Tom Vogel (TV), Edward G. Voss (EV), John Weber 

Jr. (JW), James R. Wiker (JRW), Stephen G. 

Williams (SGW), John H. Wilterding (JHW), Dave 

Winter (WDW) 

MISSOURI 

No reports. 

WEST VIRGINIA 

Contributor: The following records were 

provided by VA. 

MOTHS 

SESIIDAE - Synanthedon 

decipiens, 26 July to 27 August, 

Carmenta ithacae, 2 June to 14 

July, Alcathoe carolinensis, 19 to 

25 June, second state record, all in 

pheromone traps, Kanawha 

County. 

PYRALIDAE - Crambus 

lyonsellus, Arequipa turbatella, 22 

to 23 July, Pendleton County. 

GEOMETRIDAE - 

Homochlodes disconventa, 

Caripeta divisiata, Venusia 

carnbrica, 22 to 23 July, Pendleton 

County. Metarranthus duaria, 1 

July, Kanawha County. 

Orthonama evansi, 2 June, 

innotata, Apamea verbascoides, 

A. amputatrix, A. commodu, Polia 

nimbosa, Euretagrotis sigmoides, 

Euretagrotis perattenta, 22 to 23 

July, Pendleton County. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Polites origenes, Polites 

mystic, Wallengrenia egeremet, 

Pompeius verna, Colias interior, 

Satyrium caryaworurn, Erora 

laeta, Clossiana bellona, Speyeria 

aphrodite, Speyeria atlantis, 22 to 

23 July, Pendleton County. 

KENTUCKY 

Summary: CVC reported having a good year, 

particularly for moths, with some increase in 

Sphingidae and Catocala, and Saturniidae in 

good numbersand "running late." Summer and 

fall were rather dry. Rediscovery of Catocala 

marmorata in Paducah in September, several 

records ofAgraulis vanillaeand a sighting of 

Panoquinaocola in Louisville were high points. 

BUTTERFLIES 

(All CVC): Pygus communis, 

10 September, Fulton County. 

Lerema accius, 11 September, 

Fulton County (LK via CVC). 

Hylephila phyleus, 15 August, 

Bullitt County 11 September, 

' 

Fulton County (LK via CVC). 

Poanes zabulon, 9 September, 

Christian County 10 September, 

Fulton County. Poanes yehl, 10 

September, Fulton County. 

Amblyscirtes aesculapius, 10 

September, Fulton County on 

ironweed flowers. Panoquina 

ocola, 10 to 11 September, Fulton 

County (CVC, LK); 17 October, 

Jefferson County. Zerene cesonia, 

10 September, Fulton County more 

common than ever seen there. 

Phoebis sennae, 9 September, 

Grayson, Ohio counties; 10 


Phoebis agarithe, 10 September, 

Fulton County sighted (J. Peacock 

via CVC). Eurema nicippe, 10 


Hyllolycaena hyllus, 11 

September, Fulton County (LK via 

CVC). Calycopis cecrops, 11 July, 

Jefferson County 15 July, Bullitt 

County 10 September, Fulton 

County (J. Peacock via CVC); 12 

September, Henderson County (LK 

via CVC). Leptotes marina, 11 

September, Fulton County third KY 

record (LK via CVC). Libytheana 

bachmanii, 2 and 31 July, 

Jefferson County 10 September, 

Fulton County (J. Peacock via 

CVC). Agraulis vanillae, 10 to 11 

September, Fulton County (B. 

Salyer and LK via CVC); 12 


via CVC). Enodia portlandia 

missarkae, 10 September, Fulton 

County. Hermeuptychia sosybius, 

9 September, Christian County, 12 


via CVC). 

OHIO 

Notes: This summary was compiled by RFR, 

with moth records processed by EHM and most 

data verified by Reed Watkins against records 

of the Ohio Lepidoptera Survey. The extreme 

winter seemed todelay emergence of the very 

early species, and the continued dampand cool 

spring delayed late spring emergencesas well. 

Hairstreaks seemed to be more abundant than 

normal, as were limenitis species, 5atyrodes 

appalachia and Enodia anthedon. Conversely, the 

huge outbreak of fall-flying Colias species noted 

in 1993 was followed by an unusual paucity in 

their numbersduring the1994season. Among 

the moths. Hemaris thysbeappeared especially 

abundant. 

MOTHS 

OPOSTEGIDAE - 

Pseudopostega cretata, 8 July, 

GREENE County, STATE (EHM). 

TINEIDAE - Rnea 

carnariella, 8 July, GREENE 

County, STATE (EHM). 

OECOPHORIDAE - 

Agonopterix thelmae, 9 July, 

Hamilton County (RWR). A. 

pteleae, 1 and 8 July, GREENE 


GELECHIIDAE - 

Gnorimoschema buschiella, 14 

October, GREENE County, STATE 

(EHM). 

TORTRICIDAE -Archips 

semifuram, 5 June, Olethreutes 

nitidana, 16 August, Eucosma 

similiana, 6 September, Hamilton 

County (RWR). Epiblemma 

tandana, 8 July, GREENE County, 

STATE (EHM). Dichrorampha 

sedatana, 13 May, GREENE 


COCHYLIDAE - Hysterosia 

plummeriana, 30 May, HAMILTON 

County, STATE (RWR). 

PYRALIDAE - 

Polygrammodes langdonalis, 9 

July, Hamilton County (RWR). 

Anania funebris glomeralis, 3 

June, LORAIN County (RFR). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Cabera 

quadrifasciaria, 9 July, 

HAMILTON County (RWR). 

Lomographa semiclarata, 21 

April, WASHINGTON County 

(RFR). L. vestaliata, 19 and 23 

May, GUERNSEY County; 1 June, 

CARROLL County (RFR). 

Metarranthis hypochraria, 5 June, 

GUERNSEY County (RFR). M. 

homuraria, 12 June, ASHTABULA 

County (RFR). Haematopis 

grata*, 

15 July, LORAIN County; 

12 September, CARROLL County 

(RFR). 


diffinis, 30 May, 12 and 29 July, 

ASHTABULA County; 9 June, 

HARRISON County (RFR). 

Amphionfloridensis, 5 June, 

GUERNSEY County; 14 June, 

CARROLL County (RFR). 

ARCTIIDAE - Ctenucha 

virginica, 22 June andand 16 July, 

LORAIN County (RFR). 

NOCTUIDAE - Zanclognatha 

protumnusalis, 5 June, 


Chytolita morbidalis, 30 May, 

Hamilton County (RWR). 

Parahypenodes quadralis, 10 

September, WYANDOT County, 

third Ohio specimen (EHM). 

Bomolocha baltimoralis, 5 June, 


Catocala antinympha, Catocala 

obscura, 23 August, Catocala cara, 

30 July to 25 August, Catocala 

amatrix, 22 to 27 August, Catocala 

amica, 12 July, Catocala lineella, 

12 July, all HENRY County (TWC). 

Psychomorpha epimenis, 14 April, 

WASHINGTON County (RFR). 

Alypia octomaculata, 27 July, 

LORAIN County (RFR). A. 

langtoni, 13 July, HAMILTON 

County, STATE (RWR). Apamea 

nigrior, 14 June, HAMILTON 

County (RWR). Luperina stipata, 

8 August to 3 September, 

WYANDOT County, third Ohio 

County (EHM). Spartiniphaga 

inops, 10 September, WYANDOT 

County, second Ohio County 

(EHM). Papaipenzu beeriana, 30 

September and 8 October, 

WYANDOT County, third Ohio 

County (EHM). Ci7-rophanus 

triangulifer, 22 August and 3 

September, LORAIN County 

(RFR). Lithophane tepida, 7 

October, HAMILTON County, 

STATE (RWR). Anathix aggressa, 

10 September, WYANDOT County, 

second Ohio County (EHM). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Thorybes pylades, 1 and 14 

June, CARROLL County (RFR). 

Erynnis brtzo, 10 May, 

GEAUGUSTA County (MSR). 

Erynnis baptisiae, 30 May and 29 

July, ASHTABULA County (RFR); 

1,11 and 18 September, ERIE 

County (M&TG). Pholisora 

catullus, 17 July, GEAUGUSTA 

County (MSR). Polites mystic, 5 

June, GUERNSEY County (RFR). 

Wallengrenia egeremet, 8 August, 

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MONROE County (RFR). 

Anatrytone logan, 10 July, 


Poanes hobomok, 4,10,14 and 22 

June, ERIE County (M&TG). 

Euphyes conspicua, 17 July, 

GEAUGUSTA County (RFR). 

Euphyes vestris metacomet, 7 

July, CARROLL County (RFR). 

Amblyscirtes hegon, 9 June, 

HARRISON County (RFR). 

Panoquina ocola, 22 June, 

LORAIN County (RFR). Eurema 

lisa, 18 June, HANCOCK County 

(M&TG). Satyrium calanus 

falacer, 14,17,22 and 30 June and 

and 10 July, ERIE County (M and 

TG). S. liparops strigosum, 7 

July, HARRISON County, 10 July, 


Calycopis cecrops, 8 August, 

MONROE, NOBLE counties (RFR). 

Incisalia henrici, 14 and 21 April, 


Strymon rnelinus humuli, 18 

August, ERIE County (M&TG). 

Libytheana bachmanii, 10 July, 


Euphydryas phaeton, 5 June, 

GUERNSEY County (RFR). 

Polygonia comma, 14 June 

andand 17 July, CARROLL County 

(RFR). Nymphalis antiopa, 7 July, 

Asterocampa celtis, 14 June, 

CARROLL County (RFR). A. 

clyton, 1 July and 14 August, 

LORAIN County, 10 July, 


Enodia anthedon, 9 and 14 June, 7 

July and 2 August, CARROLL 

County (RFR). Cyllopsis gemma, 

12 May, 10 July and 7 August, 


Cercyonis pegala, 24 August, 

COSHOCTON County (RFR). 

INDIANA 

Summary: E5 found conditions seldom 

favorable for collecting, seeing only 46 buttefly 

and 120 moth speciesforthe season. JS 

concentrated on existing and potential natural 

areas in southern Indiana in the spring and late 

summer, but mostly in the oak barrens and 

prairies of northwestern Indians and the 

wetlandsof northern Indiana. Several sight 

records are included, especially of state and 

federal endangered species. 

MOTHS 

Contributor: All records are by ES. 

LIMACODIDAE - Sibine 

stimulea, 3 August, Wabash 

County, larvae on sweet corn 

leaves. 

SATURNIIDAE - Citheronia 

regalis, 2 July, Wabash County. 


innubens, 15 August; C. piatrix, 

20 July. C. habilis, 22 August; C. 

serena, C. palaeogama, C. parta, 

June 1995 

15 July, C. nebulosa, 23 August; C. 

subnata, 15 August; C. junctura, 

29 August; C. minuta, 19 July, all 

Wabash County, at sugar bait. 

Rhodoecia aurantiago, 21 

September, Wabash County. 

BUTTERFLIES: Erynnis 

martialis, 10 May, Newton, Jasper 

counties (JS). Hylephila phyleus, 

6 August, Kosciusko County (ES). 

Hesperia ottoe, 23 June, Lake 

County (JS). H. metea, 19 April, 

Harrison County, 10 May, Newton, 

Jasper counties (JS). Poanes 

zabulon, 31 July, Union County 

(ES). Euphyes dukesi, 3 July, 

Stueben County, 13 September, 

Gibson County (JS). Euphyes 

bimacula, 23 June, Newton 

County (JS). Amblyscirtes 

aesculapius, 24 August and 9 

September, PERRY County, STATE 

(JS). A. belli, 24 August and 9 

September, Perry County (JS). 

Pontia protodice, 13 August, 

Wabash County (ES). Pieris 

virginiensis, 20 April, Floyd, 

Hamson and Crawford counties 

(JS). Euchloe olympia, 10 May, 

Jasper County (JS). Eurema lisa, 

8 October, Wabash County (ES). 

Incisalia niphon niphon, 19 April, 

Floyd and Harrison counties; 20 

April, Crawford County (JS). 

Celastrina ebenina, 19 April, 

Floyd County (JS). Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus couperi, 12 May, Lake 

County, 20 May, Lagrange County 

(JS). Lycaeides melissa samuelis, 

1 June to 29 July, Lake and Porter 

counties (JS). Calephelis 

muticum, 24 August and 9 

September, Perry County (JS). 

Libytheana bachmanii, 20 July, 

Wabash County (ES). Speyeria 

idalia, 28 June and 26 July, 

Newton County (JS). Charidryas 

gorgone, 28 June, Newton County 

(JS), Cyllopsis gemma, 19 April, 

Harrison County, 24 August, Perry 

County 12 September, Posey 

County (JS). Neonympyha 

mitchellii, 30 June, Laporte 

County (JS). Hermeuptychia 

sosybius, 24 August and 9 

September, PERRY County, STATE 

(JS). Danaus plexippus, 25 April 

to 25 September, Wabash County; 

few seen this year (ES). 

ILLINOIS 

Summary: The following records are from JRW, 

who experienced one of his best and longest 

seasonsever, with great weather well into 

November. Areas that were flooded last year are 

still on the rebound, not having much plant life. 

MOTHS 

Contributor: All records are by JKW. 

TORTRICIDAE - 

Argyrotaenia cockerellana, 7 

September, HANCOCK County 

(JRW, T. Harrison). 

LIMACODIDAE - Sibine 

stimulea, 9 July, Menard County. 

LASIOCAMPIDAE - Tolype 

velleda, 2 to 3 October, HANCOCK 

County. 

SPHINGIDAE - Manduca 

rustica, 29 August, UNION County 

STATE. Dolba hyloeus, 14 July, 

MENARD County. Erinnyis alope, 

1 August, Union County, third IL 

specimen. 

NOTODONTIDAE - Cerura 

scitiscripta, 1 and 9 August, 

UNION County. 

ARCTIIDAE - Pygarctia 

spraguei, 31 May, Menard County, 

15 July, CASS County (V. 

LaGesse). 

NOCTUIDAE - Thysania 

senobia, 29 August, Union County. 

Ascalapha odorata, 6, 7 and 31 

July and 1 August, Union County, 

30 June and 14 July, Menard 

County, at bait (V. LaGesse). Zale 

undularis, 11 May, 8 June, and 6 

July, UNION County. Celiptera 

frustulum, 9 August, UNION 

County. Catocala maestosa, 11 

August, POPE County. C. 

cerogama, 7 September and 2 

October, HANCOCK County. C. 

parta, 24 June, MENARD County. 

C.junctura, 10 and 14 July, 

MENARD County (V. LaGesse). C. 

coccinata, 14 June, MENARD 

County (V. LaGesse). Papaipema 

cerina, 23 September, MENARD 

County. P. araliae, POPE County, 

STATE, larvae in Aralia spinosa, 

adults emerged September. P. 

leucostigma, 3 October, Hancock 

County. P. eupatorii, 12 and 14 

October, MENARD County. P. 

rigida, 15 October, KANKAKEE 

County. P. cerussata, 8 October, 

KANKAKEE County (V. LaGesse). 

P. limpida, 17 and 26 September, 

MENARD County. Pachypolia 

atricornis, 14 October, MENARD 

County. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Contributor: All records are by JKW. 

Erynnis horatius, 21 August, 

Saline County. Poanes massasoit, 

27 June, KENDALL County. 

Euphyes dukesi, 21 August, 

SALINE County (JRW, K. Phelps). 

Amblyscirtes belli, 12 May, 

Jackson County, 6 June, Union 

County. Pontia protodice, 20 

June, Mason County. Zerene 

cesonia, 9 September, Mason 

County (1 fm rosa). Eurema 

nicippe, 30 August, Pope County. 

Nathalis iole, 3 October, Hancock 

County. Satyrium liparops 

strigosum, 19 to 22 June and 9 


July, Menard County, all at 

ultraviolet and mercury vapor 

lights at night. Incisalia henrici, 

22 April, Menard County. 12 May, 

Jackson County. Speyeria idalia, 

20 June, Mason County. 

Euphydryas phaeton ozarkae, 7 

June, Johnson County. Enodia 

creola, 6 June and 10 August, 

Alexander County, 11 August, 

Jackson County. Satyrodes 

appalachia, 21 August, SALINE 

County (JRW, K. Phelps). 

Cyllopsis gemma, 11 and 30 

August, Pope County. 

IOWA 

Contributo~: Reports were contributed by 

RH and SGW. JAS recordsand postage were 

provided by KES. 

Note: Correction to 1992 summary -- the 

record of Atrytonearogos, 17 July, Ida County 

should have been Woodbury County (TO). 

MOTHS . 

ARCTIIDAE - Estigmene 

acrea, 20 August, Decatur County 

(SGW). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Ancycloxypha numitor, 20 

August, Hamilton County, 

abundant, 150 or more in one mile 

of roadside (SGW). Thymelicus 

lineola, 22 June, LUCAS, 

WARREN, WAYNE counties (RH). 

Atalopedes campestris, 26 June, 

HUMBOLDT County (RH); 11 

September, FRANKLIN County 

(JAS via RES). Poanes hobomok, 

26 June, HUMBOLDT County 

(RH). Euphyes bimacula, 22 

June, WAYNE County (RH). 

Papilio troilus, 20 August, Polk 

County, locally common (SGW). 

Phoebis sennae, 22 June, WAYNE 

County (RH); 21 August, Audubon, 

Shelby counties (SGW). Gaeides 

xanthoides dione, Hyllolycaena 

hyllus, 22 June, WAYNE County 

(RH). Satyrium caryaworurn, 19 

June, POCAHONTAS County (RH). 

Everes comyntas, 11 September, 

FRANKLIN County (JAS via RES). 

Euptoieta claudia, 22 June, 

WAYNE County (RH). Speyeria 

aphrodite, 14 August, BUENA 

VISTA County (RH); 20 August, 

Hamilton County (SGW). 

Clossiana bellona, 22 June, 

WARREN, WAYNE counties (RH). 

Charidryas gorgone, 22 June, 

LUCAS, WAYNE counties (RH). 

Phyciodes tharos, 26 June, 

HUMBOLDT County (RH); 20 

August, Polk County (SGW); 18 

September, FRANKLIN County 

(JAS via RES). Polygonia 

interrogationis, 30 July, O'BRIEN 

County (RH). Asterocampa celtis, 

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20 August, Decatur County (SGW). 

Danaus plexippus, 20 August, 

most commonly seen species in 

Iowa, possible migration along 1-35 

in Decatur, Madison, Polk, 

Hamilton, Franklin, Cerro Gordo 

and Worth counties, most common 

from Hamilton County north 

(SGW); 18 September, CASS 

County (JAS via RES). 

MINNESOTA 

Contributow: JW reported in detail on 

butteterfly species observed or photographed, and 

66 contributed moth data. 

MOTHS 

GEOMETRIDAE - Archiearis 

infans, 30 March and 14 April, 

Hubbard County (JW). 

SPHINGIDAE - Hyles gallii, 

18 June, Lake County (BB). 

ARCTIIDAE - Euchaetes egle, 

9 to 10 September, larvae, St Louis 

County (JW). 

NOCTUIDAE -Autograph 

rubida, A. mappa, Apamea 

impulsa, Melanchra pulverulenta, 

Lacanobia nevadae, L. radix, 

'Prichordestra tacoma, Papestra 

biren, Diarsia rosaria, 

Paradiarsia littoralis, 

Hemipachnobia subporphyrea, 18 

June, Lake County, det LF (BB). 

BUTTERFLIES 

(All JW) 

Thymelicus lineola, 1 July, 

Hubbard County. Pieris napi, 8 

and 25 May, 9 June and 17 July, 22 

August, Hubbard County, 10 July, 

Cass County. Euchloe olympia, 8 

May, Hubbard County. Feniseca 

tarquinius, 27 June, Hubbard 

County. Hyllolycaena hyllus, 16 to 

17 July, Hubbard County. 

Satyrium acadicum, 11 to 20 July, 

Polk County. Satyrium edwardsii, 

11 July, Polk County. Satyrium 

liparops, 16 July, Hubbard County. 

Glaupsyche lygdamus, 25 May, 

Hubbard County. Euptoieta 

claudia, 15 and 20 June, 16 July, 

Hubbard County. Speyeria 

atlantis, 10 July, Cass County, 17 

July, Hubbard County. Polygonia 

faunus, 17 July, Hubbard County. 

Nymphalis vau-album, 10 July, 

Cass County, 17 July and 19 

September, Hubbard County. 

Aglais milberti, 18 to 20 June, 10 

July, 10,17 and 25 October, 

Hubbard County, 9 to 10 

September, St Louis County. 

Vanessa cardui, 1 and 10 July, 

Hubbard County. Satyrodes 

eurydicefumosa, 10 to 17 July, 

Hubbard County. S. appalachia, 

17 July, Hubbard County. 

Coenonympha tullia inomata, 10 

to 17 July, Hubbard County. 

Danaus plexippus, 27 May to 15 

September, Hubbard County. 

WISCONSIN 

5ummary: Followings severely cold winter, the 

spring warmup progressed quickly, with growing 

degree-day accumulations indicating the season 

to be 7to 11 daysadvanced from late April 

through June. Spring wascharacterized by 

warm days but cool nights, while June was 

hotterthan normal. August was cooler, but the 

weather wasgenerally mild well intoOctober. A 

notable number of migrant butterflies were 

recorded, with Hyiephiia phyleusand libytheana 

bachmanii seen in numbers in several localities. 

Gypsy moth numbe~ weredown considerably 

from last year, with by far the largest 

populations concentrated in Door County. 

MOTHS 

PYRALIDAE - Uresiphita 

reversalis, 27 August, DANE 

County, reared from Baptisia 

lactea (R. Henderson via LF). 

SPHINGIDAE - Ceratomia 

catalpae, 29 July, Sauk County 

(LF); 10 September, Iowa County 

(JCP). Sphinx luscitiosa, 21 May, 

Bayfield County, barrens (LF). 

NOTODONTIDAE - Clostera 

brucei ,24 June, FOREST County 

(TR). Notodonta scitipennis, 4 

and 24 June, JACKSON County 

(LF, TR). 

ARCTIIDAE - Crambidia 

casta, 9 September, JACKSON 

County (LF). C. pura, 16 August, 

SAUK County, STATE, sand prairie 

(LF); 10 September, PIERCE 

County, lime prairie (LF). 

Lycomorpha pholus, 10 

September, PIERCE County, lime 

prairie (LF). Ecpantheria 

scribonia, 10 June, EAU CLAIRE 

County (JCP). Phragmatobia 

lineata, 15 August, CRAWFORD 

County (TR); 29 August, Dane 

County (TR). Apantesis carlotta, 

20 May and 6 August, PIERCE 

County, lime prairie (LF); 5 June, 

Green County (BB). Grammia 

virguncula speciosa, 5 July, 

JACKSON County (LF); 10 July, 

BAYFIELD County (LF). G. celia, 

29 July, SAUK County (LF). 

Pygarctia spraguei, 28 May, Eau 

Claire County (JCP); 4 and 15 

June, Jackson County (LF, TR). 

NOCTUIDAE - Phalaenostola 

eumelusalis, 20 June, Jackson 

County (BB). Metalectra tantillus, 

7 August 1993,ll June, 29 July 

and 16 August, SAUK County, 

STATE (LF). Ascalapha odorata, 

24 September, DOUGLAS County 

(TR). Catocala abbreeriatella, C. 

amestris, 16 July, PIERCE County 

(LF). C. clintoni, 3 July, Marathon 

County (JCP). Rachiplusia ou, 24 

September, DOUGLAS County 

(TR). Autographa californica, 20 

June, JACKSON County (BB). A. 

Jagellum, 20 June, JACKSON 

County (BB); 11 July, BAYFIELD 

County (LF); 4 July, MARATHON 

County (JCP). Syngrapha 

viridisigma, 2 September, EAU 

CLAIRE County (JCP). S. 

microgamma, 12 and 24 June, 

FOREST County (TR); 19 June, 

DOUGLAS County (BB). Oruaa 

albocostaliata, 10 September, 

PIERCE County, third state record 

(LF). Cerma Cora, 4 June, 

JACKSON County (LF). Amyna 

octo, 12 September, JEFFERSON 

County (LF). Tarachidia 

binocula, 20 May, 16 July and 6 

August, PIERCE County (LF). 

Acronicta longa, 21 May, 

BAYFIELD County (LF); 4 June, 

ADAMS County, det LF (JCP). 

Apamea lateritia, 9 and 12 July, 

BAYFIELD County (LF). A. 

niveivenosa, 30 July, MARINETTE 

County (TR). A. burgessi, 11 

September, Sauk County (LF); 10 

September, GRANT County (JCP). 

A. relicina, 2 September, EAU 

CLAIRE County (JCP); 10 

September, PIERCE County (LF). 

Oligia bridghami, 5 July, 

JACKSON County (LF). 0. 

minuscula, 2 September, FOREST 

County (TR). Meropleon 

ambz&scum, 6 August and 10 

September, PIERCE County (LF); 9 

September, JACKSON County 

(LF); 11 September, SAUK County 

(LF). Lemmeria digitalis, 2 

September, EAU CLAIRE County 

(JCP). Selicanis cinereola, 9 

September, Jackson County (LF). 

Spartiniphaga panatela, 12 July, 

Bayfield County (LF). Archanara 

laeta, 8 September, DANE County 

(TR). Papaipema cataphracta, 10 

September, WAUKESHA County 

(BB, TB). P. baptisiae, 9 

September, JACKSON County 

(LF). P. appassionata, 2 

September, FOREST County (TR). 

Hydraecia micacea, 31 July, 

FOREST County (TR). H. 

stramentosa, 16 July, PIERCE 

County (LF). Chytonix sensilis, 

10 July, Bayfield County (LF); 31 

July, MARINETTE County (TR). 

Magusa orbifera, 7 September, 

Jackson County (TR); 10 

September, Waukesha County (BB, 

TB). Amphipyra glabella, 1 July, 

GRANT County (BB). Athetis 

mendosa, 5 July, JACKSON 

County, STATE, in wetland (LF); 

12 July, BAYFIELD County (LF). 

Lithophane amanda, 19 May, 

FOREST County (TR); 2 

September, EAU CLAIRE County 

(JCP). Eupsilia devia, 14 April, 

JACKSON County (LF); 21 May, 

BAYFIELD County (LF). 

Chaetaglaea sericea, 24 

September, DOUGLAS County 

(TR). Feralia jocosa, 19 May, 

FOREST County (TR). 

Homohadena badistea, 20 June 

and 5 July, JACKSON County (BB, 

LF); 16 July, PIERCE County (LF). 

hcocnemis viriditincta, 17 

September 1993, JACKSON 

County, STATE, det JHW (LF). 

Sideridis congermana, 4 and 15 

June, 5 July, Jackson County (LF, 

TR). Lacanobia nmadae, 12 

June, FOREST County (TR). 

lkichordestra rugosa, 12 June, 

FOREST County (TR). Papestra 

quadrats, 21 May, Bayfield County 

(LF); 13 May, Marinette County 

(BB, TB). Euxoa obeliscoides, 10 

September, PIERCE County, lime 

prairie (LF). Richia grotei, 6 

August, PIERCE County, lime 

prairie (LF); 17 and 26 August, 

DANE County (TR). Diarsia 

rosaria, 9 July, BAYFIELD County, 

STATE, det J.D. Lafontaine (LF). 

Xestia oblata, 12 July, Bayfield 

County (LF). Metalepsisfishii, 21 

May, BAYFIELD County (LF). 

Heliothis acesias, 29 July, Sauk 

County (LF). Schinia indiana, 26 

May, BURNETT County (S&AS); 29 

May to 15 June, JACKSON County 

(S&AS, LF). S. mortua, 15 to 21 

August, CRAWFORD County, on 

Grindelia squarrosa flowers, det 

J.D. Lafontaine and J.R. Heitzman 

(TR, LF). S. oleagina, 6 August, 

PIERCE County, lime prairie (LF). 

S. lucens, 1 July, Sauk County (LF, 

JCP); 16 July, Pierce County (LF). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Erynnis martialis, 23 May, 

Douglas County (LF); 23 to 28 

May, Burnett County (LF, JCP); 24 

July, Jackson County (TR). 

Pyrgus communis, 1 June, 

JACKSON County (S&AS). Nastra 

lherminier, 28 August, Green 

County (LF). Thymelicus lineola, 

25 June, ADAMS County (JCP); 2 

July, JACKSON, MARATHON, 

PORTAGE, VERNON, WOOD 

counties (JCP). Hylephila 

phyleus, 30 July and 22 August, 

Milwaukee County (JE, K&DL); 7 

August and 10 September, Grant 

County (K&DL, JCP); 11 

September, Sauk County (K&DL); 

25 September, Waukesha County 

(JE). Hesperia ottoe, 28 June to 

26 July, Crawford, Grant, Green, 

Sauk counties (S&AS); 15 July, 

Trempealeau County (K&DL). 

Hesperia metea, 13 May, Adams 

County (JCP); 28 May, Burnett, 

Douglas counties (JCP). 

Atalopedes campestris, 24 June, 

Forest County (TR); 7 August, 

Grant County (K&DL); 19 August, 

Milwaukee County (JE). Problema 

byssus, 2 July, Grant County 

(JCP). Euphyes bimacula, 24 

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June, Forest County (TR). Pontia 

protodice, 15 August, Crawford 

County (TR). Zerene cesonia, 24 

July, Grant County (K&DL); 10 

September, PIERCE County (Carol 

Ferge via LF). Eurema lisa, 15 

July, Trempealeau County (K&DL); 

22 July, Milwaukee County (JE); 

23 July, Crawford County (TR); 23 

July, Dane County (K&DL); 24 July 

to 22 August, Grant County 

(K&DL); 10 September, Grant 

County (JCP); 11 September, 

Crawford County (LF). Nathalis 

iole, 12 July to 14 September, 

Dane County (K&DL); 15 July, 

Trempealeau County (K&DL); 16 

July, Winnebago County (CS); 23 

July and 11 September, Crawford 

County (TR, LF). Feniseca 

tarquinius, 27 July, Sauk County 

(K&DL); 4 August, Waukesha 

County, ovipositing on Alder (JE). 

Incisalia irus, 10 May to 1 June, 

Jackson, Wood counties (S&AS). 

Incisalia henrici, 14 to 17 May, 

Jackson County (LF, S&AS); 23 to 

28 May, Bumett, Douglas counties 

(LF, JCP). Strymon melinus, 22 

May, WOOD County (SMS). 

kcaeides melissa samuelis, 22 

May-6 September, Burnett, Clark, 

Eau Claire, Jackson, Wood 

counties (S&AS). Plebejus 

saepiolus, 25 June, Marinette 

County (TR). Libytheana 

bachmanii, 18 June, IOWA County 

(K&DL); 15 July, TREMPEALEAU 

County (K&DL); 5 August, 

MANITOWOC County (TV). 

Vanessa cardui, 1 to 15 May, 

Winnebago County (CS). Junonia 

coenia, 31 July, FOREST County 

(TR); 15 August POLK County 

(K&DL); 24 August, ADAMS, 

Portage counties (K&DL); 11 to 21 

September, Winnebago County 

(CS); 18 September, Dane County 

(K&DL). Speyeria idalia, 28 June 

to 21 August, Crawford, Dane, 

Iowa counties (AS); Green County 

(K&DL, S&AS). Clossiana 

eunomia dawsoni, 12 June, 

FOREST County (TR). C.freja, 

21 May, DOUGLAS County (LF); 

28 May, Oneida County (JCP). C. 

titania grandis, 17 August, 

Douglas County (K&DL). 

Charidryas gorgone carlota, 4 

June, Jackson County (LF); 10 to 

24 July, Winnebago County (CS); 

15 July, Trempealeau County 

(K&DL). Anaea andria, 15 

August, JACKSON County, sight 

(T. Kirkpatrick via JE). 

Asterocampa celtis, A. clyton, 25 

June, ADAMS County (JCP); 2 

July, Grant, VERNON counties 

(JCP). Coenonympha tullia 

inornata, 24 June, Forest County, 

25 June, Marinette County (TR). 

Erebia discoidalis, 21 May, 

Douglas County (LF). Oeneis 

June 1995 

chryxus strigulosa, 21 May, 

Bayfield County (LF); 23 to 28 

May, Douglas County (LF, JCP). 

MICHIGAN 

Winter was colder than 

normal, one of the worst in this 

century. There was much snow 

statewide, but warming to 60 

degrees F by 20 February. Spring 

was the eighth warmest in 100 

years, and extremely dry well into 

June. Above average temperatures 

extended into September. 

Butterfly species and numbers 

were down, but moth species 

appeared more numerous, 

especially early in the season. 

Catocala were more numerous, 

with 42 species recorded. Gypsy 

moth numbers were down from 

previous years. Monarchs 

appeared more numerous than last 

year (MN). 

MOTHS 

PSYCHIDAE - Apterona 

helix, 20 March, JACKSON 

County, larval cases on Prunus 

serotina (TH, RK, MN). 

OECOPHORIDAE - Agonopterix 

canadensis, 4 September, BARRY 

County, STATE (JHW). 

GELECHIIDAE - 

Helcystogramma fernaldella, 18 

June1993, LUCE County, STATE, 

det JHW (MN). H. melanocarpum, 

4 September, BARRY County, 

STATE (JHW). Dichomeris 

costarufoella, D. inversella, 

August 1993, WASHTENAW 

County, STATE (JHW). 

TORTRICIDAE - Eumaroaia 

malachitana, 17 June, Kalamazoo 

County, wet forest (GB). 

Olethreutes osmundana, 3 July, 

Allegan County (GB). Eucosma 

ridingsana, 12 to 18 August 1992, 

ALLEGAN County, STATE (RK). 

Acleris semiannula, 24 March, 

CLINTON County, STATE (RK). A. 

walkerana, 19 Feb, ROSCOMMON 

County, STATE, det JHW (MN). A. 

chalybeana, 7 April 1993, 

CLINTON County, STATE (RK, 

JHW). A. flavivittana, August 

1993, INGHAM County, STATE 

(JHW). Decodes basiplaganus, 4 

September, BARRY County, STATE 

(JHU. 

PYRALIDAE - Loxostege 

anartalis, 20 May, PRESQUE ISLE 

County (GB). Scirpophaga 

perstrialis, 3 July, Allegan County, 

bog lake edge (GB). Crambus 

hamellus, C. ainsliellus, 9 

September, Allegan County, sand 

prairie (GB). Actrix nyssaecolella, 

10 June, VAN BUREN County, 3 

July, ALLEGAN County (GB). Pyla 

aenigmatica, 10 June, VAN 

BUREN County, dunes (GB). 

Bandera binotella, 3 July, Allegan 

County, 26 August, MASON 

County (GB). Coenochroa 

bipunctella, 3 July, Allegan County 

(GB). 


denticulata, 20 May, Presque Isle 

County (GB). S. subminiam, 26 

August, MASON County, dunes 

(GB). Orthofidoniaflavivenata, 

14 to 21 May, Otsego, 

SCHOOLCRAFT counties (MN). 

Hypomecis umbrosaria, 3 July, 

Allegan County (GB). Erastria 

coloraria, 20 May, Presque Isle 

County (GB). Epirranthis 

substriataria, 13 May, Otsego 

County (MN). Gueneria similaria, 

17 June, Kalamazoo County, wet 

forest (GB). Metarranthis 

angularia, 10 June, Van Buren 

County (GB). Scopula ancellata, 

26 August, MASON County, dunes 

(GB). 

SATURNIIDAE - Hemileuca 

sp. nr. nevadensis, 19 Feb, 

Roscommon County, egg rings on 

Salix sp. in sedge marsh (EH, TH, 

MN). Anisota (Vanessa) 

virginiensis, 1 July, Otsego 

County (MN). Callosamia 

angulifera, 23 July, Cass County 

(MN). Hyalophora columbia, 

Roscommon County, cocoons on 

Larix (EH, TH); 10 to 17 June, 

Luce, Schoolcraft counties (EH, 

MN). H. columbia x cecropia 

hybrid, 17 June, Schoolcraft 

County, 1 male in ultraviolet trap 

(MN). 

SPHINGIDAE - Paratraea 

plebeja, 9 July, Cass County, third 

state record (TH). Ceratomia 

undulosa female flying in copula 

with a male Sphinx poecila, 17 

June, Schoolcraft County, at 

ultraviolet (EH, MN). 

NOTODONTIDAE - Clostera 

brucei, 17 June, Luce, Schoolcraft 

counties (MN). Dasylophia 

thyatiroides, 17 June, 

SCHOOLCRAFT County (MN). 

ARCTIIDAE - Haploa 

clymene, 15 to 23 July, Cass 

County (EH, MN). 

NOCTUIDAE - Tetanolita 

floridana, 23 July, CASS County, 

STATE (MN). Cissusa spadix, 29 

May, OTSEGO County (MN). 

Synedoida adumbrata alleni, 17 

June, LUCE, Schoolcraft counties 

(EH, MN). Ascalapha odorata, 15 

July, Ingham County (HK). C. 

nebulosa, 6 August to 9 

September, BARRY, Cass, Lenewee 

counties (MN). C. luciana, 26 

August, MASON County, STATE 

(GB). C. amestris, 29 July, Barry 

County (MN). C. dulciola, 9 to 22 

July, Cass County (EH, MN). 

Argyrogramma verruca, 26 Nov, 

INGHAM County (EH). 

Autographa mappa, 17 June to 1 


July, OTSEGO, Schoolcraft 

counties (MN). Syngrapha 

montana, 17 June, Schoolcraft 

County (MN). Exyrafax, 9 June, 

KEWEENAW County, larvae in 

Sawacenia purpurea (MN). 

Papaipema speciosissima, 9 

September, ALLEGAN County, bog 

(GB). P. appassionata, 4 

September, Barry County, LUCE 

County, larva in Sarracenia 

purpurea (MN). Acronicta 

funeralis, 29 May-17 June, 

HOUGHTON, Otsego, Schoolcraft 

counties (EH, MN). A. lanceolaria, 

20-27 May, Chippewa, OTSEGO 

counties (MN). Merolonche dolli, 

13 to 14 May, Otsego County (MN). 

Meropleon ambzfuscum, 4 

September, Barry County (MN). 

Bellura dzffusa, 21 May, 

Schoolcraft County (MN). 

Fagitana littera, 3 July, Allegan 

County, bog (GB). Mniotype 

ducta, 17 June, Schoolcraft 

County (MN). Lacanobia 

nevadae, L. radix, 5 June, 

Schoolcraft County (MN). P. biren, 

5 to 17 June, Schoolcraft County 

(EH, MN). Leucania linita, 17 

June, SCHOOLCRAFT County 

(MN). Copablepharon longipenne, 

26 August, MASON County, dunes 

(GB). Euxoafumalis, 19 August, 

Presque Isle County (GB). 

Cerastis tenebnjera, 21 May, 

SCHOOLCRAFT County (MN). 

Schinia bina, 17 June, Schoolcraft 

County (MN). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Poanes viator, Euphyes 

conspicw, 15 to 16 July, Cass 

County (MN). Phoebis philea, 13 

to 14 September, WASHTENAW 

County, sight (MK). Epidemia 

helloides, 19 June, Otsego County 

(MN). Satyrium edwardsii, 22 to 

23 July, Cass County, at ultraviolet 

light (MN). Glaucopsyche 

lygdamus couperi, 17 to 18 June, 

Mackinac County (EH, MN). 

Incisalia eryphon, 21-27 May, 

Chippewa, Mackinac counties (EH, 

MN). Euptoieta Claudia, 16 

August, Luce County, on 

Hieracium kalmii flowers (EV). 

Speyeria idalia, 5 July, ALLEGAN 

County, nectaring on Asclepias 

tuberosa flowers (CR). Clossiana 

eunomia dawsoni, 17 June, 

Mackinac County (EH). C.fngga, 

6 to 8 June, Baraga County (MN); 

10 to 17 June, Luce County (EH, 

MN). C.freija, 22 May, Dickinson 

County (MN). Charidryas 

harrisii, 17 June, Luce County 

(EH). Coenonympha tullia 

inornata, 17 to 18 June, Mackinac 

(EH, MN). Erebia discoidalis, 22 

May, Dickinson County (MN). 

Danaus plexippus, 28 August, 

Isabella County, 2-3000 roosting in 

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trees for several days in Mt. 

Pleasant area (Rosemarie Simmer 

via WDW). 

No report 

received 

MOTHS 

GEOMETRIDAE - 

Cymatophora successaria, 

Jefferson, Coos County, 19 July. 

ARCTIIDAE - Apantesis 

quenseli, Mount Washington, Coos 

County, 18 July. 

NOCTUIDAE - Homohadena 

infwcta, 3 August and Protagrotis 

niveivenosa, 9 July, Jefferson, all 

(JAH) 1993 records. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Pholisora catullus, 

Rollingford, Strafford County, 30 

July (DE, REG, JW); Hesperia 

leonardus, common at various 

sites south of Coos County, 20 

August to 18 September. Poanes 

massasoit Hopkinton, Merrimack 

County, 24 July (REG, DE); 

Incisalia henrici, Chichester, 

Merrimack County, 21 May and 

Incisalia lanoriaeensis, 

Effingham, Carroll County, 4,21 

May (DE, REG, JW). . 

MASSACHUSETTS 

MOTHS 

PYRALIDAE - Thaumatopsis 

daeckella, Ponkapoag Bog, Canton, 

Norfolk County, October 9 (MJM). 

GEOMETRIDAE - Hypomecis 

buchholtzaria, Plymouth, 

Plymouth County, 23 June (MJM); 

Lycia ursaria, Lycia achelae, Fort 

Devens, Worcester County, 15 

April (EP). 


Notodonta scitipennis Chicopee, 

Hamden County, 9 June (MJM) 

and Oxbow Wildlife Refuge, 

Harvard, Worcester County, 24 

July (EP). 

. ARCTIIDAE - Grammia 

phyllira 9,10 June, 4 August and 

G. ithona 9, 10 June, 4, 12 August, 

Chicopee (MJM) [form of phyllira 

I; 

NOCTUIDAE - Hormisa 

bivittata, Oxbow Wildlife Refuge, 

18 July (EP); Acronicta albarufa, 

(2) Plymouth, 13 July, and 

Crymodes relicina, Chicopee, 21 

September (MJM), det (RP); 

Lemmeria digitalis Dedham 

Norfolk County, October (DW); 

Spartinophaga includens 

Chicopee, 14 July (MJM); 

Papaipema birdi, Oxbow Wildlife 

Refuge, 9 October (EP); Trachea 

delicata Chicopee, 4 August 

(MJM); Platyperigea multgera, 

Oxbow wildlife Refuge, 8 

September (EP); Plagiomimicus 

pitychromus, Chicopee, 12 August 

(MJM); Brachylomia algens, Fort 

Devens, 22 July (EP); 

Eucoptocnemisfimbriaris, 21 

September and Schinia nubila, 

(STATE) 31 August, Chicopee 

(MJM). 

BUTTERFLIES 

Hesperia leonardus, three, 

Chatham, 11 September. 

Basilarchia arthemis, one among 

tenB. styanax, Wellfleet, 13 

August, Barnstable County (TS). 

RHODE ISLAND 

MOTHS 


connubialis Providence, 

Providence County, 1 July (WG). 

CONNECTICUT 

No report. 

NEW YORK . 

BUTTERFLIES 

Mitoura grynea Plattsburg, 

CLINTON County. (latitude 44 

degrees 38 minutes), 28 June 

(MG). 

PENNSYLVANIA 

MOTHS 

SPHINGIDAE - Manduca 

iasminearum, Willow Grove, 

MONTGOMERY County, 14 July 


maestosa, Willow Grove, n.d.(WB) 

BUTTERFLIES 

Euphyes bimacula, Tamarack 

Swamp Natural Area, Clinton 

County, 2 July (GM). Calycopis 

cecrops, Bethel Park, Allegheny 

County, 23 August (MM). 

Nymphalis vau-album, Springfield 

Township, Erie County, 23 March, 

and Euptoieta claudia, (20) 

Fairview, Erie County, 6, 27 August 

(GM), Waddle, Centre County, 30 

April 1993 (RB), female ovipositing 

on unopen terminal buds of Ulmus 

americana. 

MARYLAND 

MOTHS 

Ascalapha odorata, one at 

Arnold, August (LD) and one in 

Annapolis, 24 October (SRB), 

Anne Arundel County. 

BUTTERFLIES 

Lerema accius, one, 

Perryville, Cecil County, 14 

November (RG). Pyrgus 

centaureae wyandot (6 to 7) near 

Flintstone, Allegheny County, 24 

April (RG and RW), NOT in Green 

Ridge State Forest, which has been 

sprayed with dimlin for gypsy 

moths. Hylephila phyleus, albino 

male, Perryville, 2 October (RG). 

Panoquina ocola, Alesia, one, 20 

August, Glen Falls/ Finksburg, two, 

12,24 September, Liberty 

Watershed, one, 10 October, 

CARROLL County (RR), Chevy 

Chase, 24 October (SM). Papilio 

palamedes, Ocean Pines, 

Worcester County, 17 September 

(JF). Pontia Protodice, many, 

Davidsonville, Anne Arundel 

County, 21 June to 6 August 

(HAW), Cheltenham W.M.A., 

Prince Georges County, 24 June 

(RS). Euchloe olympia, ten or 

more, Flintstone, 24 April (RG). 

Eurema nicippe, Davidsonville, 16 

August (HAW), Little Bennett 

Regional Park, nine, Montgomery 

County, 2 to 3 October, one, 5 

November, Nolands Ferry, one or 

two, Montgomery County, 5 

November (D&RG). Feniseca 

tarquinius, Oella, BALTIMORE 

County, 4 June (RS). Hyllolycaena 

hyllus, Union Bridge, Bruceville, 

Hashawha, Carroll County, 5 days, 

23 July to 25 September (RR). 

Satyrium liparops Penyville, 

CECIL County, 20 June (RG). 

Incisalia henrici Silver Spring, 14, 

28 April (HP), Chevy Chase, 18 

April (SM) and 5 May (GF), 

Beshers W.M.A., 24 April 

(NORTHEAST). Parrhasius m- 

album, Chevy Chase, 17 October 

(SM), Little Bennett Regional Park, 

sever or eight, Montgomery 

County, 25 April (D and RG). 

Strymon melinus, aberrant 

(orange hindwing spot replaced by 

white on both dorsal and ventral 

sides), Perryville, 4 October (RG), 

and Glaucopsyche lygdamus, 

Flintstone, 24 April (RG). 

Libytheana carinenta, Union 

Bridge, Alesia, CARROLL County, 

23, 30 July (RR). Euptoieta 

claudia, one, Perryville, 1 

December (late)(RG). Charidryas 

nycteis, Union Bridge, 23, 30 July 

(RR). Basilarchia anthemis form 

"IB" Weldon, CARROLL County, 

18 September (RR), det AP, 

Nolands Ferry, FREDERICK 

County, 18 September (D and RG). 

Asterocampa celtis Union Bridge, 

CARROLL County, 18 July to 

October, Asterocampa clyton, 

Hanover watershed, CARROLL 

County, 4 to 30 July, and Enodia 

anthedon, Patapsco State Park, 

McKeldin area, CARROLL County, 

2 July to 2 August (RR). 

No Report 

Submitted 

No Report 

Submitted 

Coordinator: 6oyce A. Drummond. 

Contributor: John T. MacKoy (JTM). 

Summary: Only one brief report for Zone 13 

was received for 1994. 

BOLIVIA 

JTM visited Lepidopterists' 

Society member Luis Skandar in 

Santa Cruz, and collected and 

photographed April 1-8 on a 15 x 

15-acre fenced forest presenre on 

the outskirts of the city. Genera 

recorded included Parides 

(Papilionidae), Morpho, Caligo, 


Callicore, Doxocopa, Hamadryas (3 

species), Actinote, Heliconius (several 

species), Lgcorea, Thyridia, Melinaea, and 

Mechanitis (Nymphalidae). 

ZONE 

COORDINATORS 

ZONE 1 : Dr. Kenelm W. Philip 

Institute of Arctic Biology 

University of Alaska 

P.O. Box 75700 

Fairbanks, Alaska 99775-7000 USA 

ZONE 2 Jon H. Shepard 

R.R. #2, S.22, C.44 

Nelson, British Columbia V1 L 5P5 CANADA 

(604)352-3028 

ZONE 3: Robert L Langston 

31 Windsor Avenue 

Kensington, CA 94708-1040 USA 

(51 0)524-3001 home 

ZONE 4 R. Ray E. Stanford 

720 Fairfax Street 

Denver CO 80220-51 51 USA 

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Division of Science 

Minot State University 

Minot, North Dakota 58707 USA 

Off ice (701 )857-3209 

FAX (70 1 )839-6933 

e-mail: royer@warp6.cs.misu.NoDak.edu 

ZONE 6: Chades Bordelon, Jr., 

8440 Washington Boulevard 

Beaumont, TX 77707 

(409)866-8163 (home) 

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6124 Carp Road, Rural Route #2 

Kinburn, Ontario KOA 2H0 CANADA 

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ZONE a Leslie A Ferge 

71 19 Hubbard Avenue 

Middleton, Wisconsin 53562-3231 USA 

(608)836-9438 

ZONE 9: Andrew F. Beck 

Navy Disease Vector Ecology & Control 

Box 43, Naval Air Station 

Jacksonville, FL 32212 USA 

ZONE 10: Mark J. Mello 

P.O. Box 87037 

South Dartmouth. Massachusetts 02748 

ZONE 11: Dr. and Mrs. Floyd W. Preston 

832 Sunset Drive 

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(Book Review Editor) 


From. 

The Lepidopterists' Society 

Allen Press 

P.O. Box 368 

Lawrence, KS 66044 

U.S. Postage 

Permit No. 116 

Address Correct~on Requested 

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Male Xerces Blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus 

xerces). This subspecies was once found along 

the San Francisco coast, but is now extinct. 

Drawing by Jaret C. Daniels.

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