The NABA Fall Santa Rita Mountains Butterfly count will be on Saturday, September 29th. Please contact Gerry & Vicki Wolfe @ SEABA_publicity@yahoo.com if you wish to participate. If you have a specific area that you would like to cover, please let them know and they will do their best to accommodate you. Also, please let them know if you would like to join a post-count compilation dinner, probably at 4:30 PM at the Grill at Quail Creek, just east of the Nogales Highway in Sahaurita.
Nineteen observers in eight parties spent the day scouring the Santa Ritas Mountains on a pleasant sunny day and counted 72 species and 57,549 individual butterflies. Species highlighted in bold print are the highest number for any count since records have been kept in 2011.
- Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor 57
- Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes 7
- Western Giant Swallowtail Papilio Rumiko 10
- Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio multicaudata 19
- Checkered White Pontia protodice 14
- Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme 20
- Southern Dogface Colias cesonia 101
- Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae 85
- Large Orange Sulphur Phoebis agarithe 1
- Lyside Sulphur Kricogonia lyside 1
- Boisduval's Yellow Eurema boisduvaliana 2
- Mexican Yellow Eurema mexicana 216
- Tailed Orange Eurema proterpia 374
- Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe 4
- Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole 88
- Great Purple Hairstreak Atlides halesus 1
- Siva' Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus siva 1
- Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus 12
- Leda Ministreak Ministrymon leda 2
- Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exile 49
- Marine Blue Leptotes marina 120
- Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus Ceraunus 196
- Reakirt’s Blue Hemiargus isola 45
- ‘Echo’ Spring Azure Celastrina ladon 213
- Acmon Blue Plebejus acmon texana 4
- Fatal Metalmark Calephelis nemesis 9
- Arizona Metalmark Calephelis arizonensis 12
- Palmer's Metalmark Apodemia palmeri 39
- American Snout Libytheana carinenta 54,164
- Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanillae 6
- Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia 2
- Theona Checkerspot Chlosyne theona 1
- Bordered Patch Chlosyne lacinia 588
- Tiny Checkerspot Dymasia dymas 38
- Arizona Checkerspot Texola perse 112
- Texan Crescent Phyciodes texana 15
- Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa 2
- American Lady Vanessa virginiensis 15
- Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 16
- West Coast Lady Vanessa Annabella 1
- Red Admiral Vanessa Atalanta 1
- Common Buckeye Junonia coenia 3
- ‘Dark’ Tropical Buckeye Junonia nigrosuffusa 13
- Red-spotted Purple Limenitis arthemis astyanax 46
- ‘Arizona’ California Sister Adelpha bredowii 185
- Tropical Leafwing Anaea aidea 1
- Hackberry Emperor Asterocampa celtis 4
- Empress Leilia Asterocampa leilia 29
- Tawny Emperor Asterocampa clyton 4
- Nabokov's Satyr Cyllopsis pyracmon 28
- Red-bordered Satyr Gyrocheilus patrobas 253
- Monarch Danaus Plexippus 1
- Queen Danaus gilippus 40
- Arizona Skipper Codatractus arizonensis 10
- Dorantes Longtail Urbanus dorantes 50
- Desert Cloudywing Achalarus casica 6
- Acacia Skipper Cogia hippalus 5
- Golden-headed Scallopwing Staphylus ceos 9
- Arizona Powdered-Skipper Systasea zampa 6
- Mournful Duskywing Erynnis tristis 2
- Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis 57
- Common/White Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus communis/albis 13
- Tropical Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus oileus 1
- Desert Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus philetas 23
- Erichson's White-Skipper Heliopyrgus domicella 2
- White-tufted Sootywing Pholisora albicirrus 1
- Clouded Skipper Lerema Accius 2
- Orange Skipperling Copaeodes aurantiacus 29
- Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus 3
- Eufala Skipper Lerodea eufala 2
- Arizona Giant-Skipper Agathymus aryxna 1
Sulphur Sp. 20
Blue Sp. 34
Vanessa Sp. 1
Duskywing Sp. 1
Roadside Skipper sp. 1
Total individuals 57,549