The count circle includes Sabino Canyon proper as well as all the areas along the Catalina Highway up to Mount Lemmon itself. There are two Sabino Canyon counts, one in the spring and one in the summer. The spring count which has already been run this year, finds most of its species in the lower parts of the circle, while this summer count does much better in the higher and cooler elevations. A White-striped Longtail was among the better butterflies found last year. Compilation dinner at 5:30 PM at Risky Business at Sunrise and Kolb.
Contact compiler Greg Greene if you wish to participate in this count.
Before getting to the results I just want to say thank you once again for coming out. Each group contributed rather significantly to the overall total number of species, as witnessed by the high number of single sightings. We had record numbers of 2 species: Orange Sulphur (80) and Golden-headed Scallopwing (158). New for the summer count was a Tropical Leafwing.
- Pipevine Swallowtail Battus philenor 62
- Black Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes 1
- Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio multicaudata 46
- Checkered White Pontia protodice 23
- Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme 80
- Southern Dogface Colias cesonia 37
- Cloudless Sulphur Phoebis sennae 43
- Lyside Sulphur Kricogonia lyside 1
- Mexican Yellow Eurema Mexicana 61
- Sleepy Orange Eurema nicippe 46
- Dainty Sulphur Nathalis iole 20
- Colorado Hairstreak Hypaurotis crysalus 1
- Thicket Hairstreak Callophrys spinetorum 1
- Siva' Juniper Hairstreak Callophrys gryneus siva 1
- Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus 10
- Leda Ministreak Ministrymon leda 1
- Arizona Hairstreak Erora quaderna 1
- Marine Blue Leptotes marina 66
- Ceraunus Blue Hemiargus ceraunus 14
- Reakirt’s Blue Hemiargus isola 22
- ‘Echo’ Spring Azure Celastrina ladon 419
- Acmon Blue Plebejus acmon texana 2
- Fatal Metalmark Calephelis nemesis 1
- Zela Metalmark Emesis zela 4
- Ares Metalmark Emesis ares 1
- Mormon Metalmark Apodemia mormo 5
- Palmer's Metalmark Apodemia palmeri 1
- American Snout Libytheana carinenta 8
- Gulf Fritillary Agraulis vanilla 5
- Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia 5
- Theona Checkerspot Chlosyne Theona 6
- Bordered Patch Chlosyne lacinia 6
- Tiny Checkerspot Dymasia dymas 12
- Elada Checkerspot Texola elada 5
- Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa 3
- Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 18
- Common Buckeye Junonia coenia 11
- ‘Dark’ Tropical Buckeye J.genoveva nigrosuffusa 1
- Red-spotted Purple Limenitis arthemis astyanax 17
- ‘Arizona’ California Sister Adelpha bredowii 35
- Tropical Leafwing Anaea aidea 1 (New for the count)
- Hackberry Emperor Asterocampa celtis 2
- Empress Leilia Asterocampa leilia 44
- Tawny Emperor Asterocampa clyton 8
- Nabokov's Satyr Cyllopsis pyracmon 2
- Red Satyr Megisto rubricata 20
- Queen Danaus gilippus 17
- Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus 1
- Arizona Skipper Codatractus arizonensis 3
- Golden-banded Skipper Autochton cellus 1
- Northern Cloudywing Thorybes pylades 14
- Drusius Cloudywing Thorybes drusius 1
- Acacia Skipper Cogia hippalus 21
- Golden-headed Scallopwing Staphylus ceos 158
- Arizona Powdered-Skipper Systasea zampa 10
- Mournful Duskywing Erynnis tristis 3
- Pacuvius Duskywing Erynnis pacuvius 8
- Funereal Duskywing Erynnis funeralis 3
- Common Sootywing Pholisora Catullus 29
- Orange Skipperling Copaeodes aurantiacus 34
- Taxiles Skipper Poanes taxiles 18
- Moon-marked Skipper Atrytonopsis lunus 2
- Large Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes exoteria 7
- Cassus Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes cassus 8
- Bronze Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes aenus 10
- Elissa Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes elissa 1
Erema sp? 7
Erynnis sp? 5