Date & Time:
July 31, 2018 - 6:30am
Meeting Place:
Sabino Canyon Visitors Center. Check with Mary for other meeting places for folks heading directly up the mountain
Compiler:
Mary Klinkel
Compiler Email:
munchita@msn.com
This count. which covers Sabino Canyon as well as few low country gardens, also covers numerous spots along the Catalina Highway up to the top of Mount Lemmon. Last year, because of the very late onset of the monsoon rains, only 42 species were found, but of those were 4 national high counts of which two species Nais Metalmark (25) and Black Checkerspot (1) were found exclusively on this count.
Trip Butterfly Reports:
Holding the count at the end of July instead of mid-July allowed more time for the effect of monsoon rains to take hold. 14 observers in 6 parties found the following 64 species (number of individuals in parenthesis).
- Pipevine Swallowtail - 83 Battus philenor
- Black Swallowtail - 1 Papilio polyxenes
- Giant Swallowtail - 1 Papilio cresphontes
- Two-tailed Swallowtail - 34 Papilio multicaudata
- Clouded Sulphur - 1 Colias philodice
- Orange Sulphur - 139 Colias eurytheme
- Southern Dogface - 3 Colias cesonia
- Cloudless Sulphur - 234 Phoebis sennae
- Large Orange Sulphur - 1 Phoebis agarithe
- Lyside Sulphur - 4 Kricogonia lyside
- Mexican Yellow - 3 Eurema mexicana
- Tailed Orange - 9 Eurema proterpia
- Sleepy Orange - 26 Eurema nicippe
- Dainty Sulphur - 2 Nathalis iole
- Colorado Hairstreak - 5 Hypaurotis crysalus
- Thicket Hairstreak - 1 Callophrys spinetorum
- Gray Hairstreak - 1 Strymon melinus
- Arizona Hairstreak - 1 Erora quaderna
- Western Pygmy-Blue - 3 Brephidium exile
- Marine Blue - 12 Leptotes marina
- Ceraunus Blue - 19 Hemiargus ceraunus
- Reakirt’s Blue - 4 Hemiargus isola
- ‘Echo’ Spring Azure - 141 Celastrina ladon
- Fatal Metalmark - 2 Calephelis nemesis
- Zela Metalmark - 2 Emesis zela
- Palmer's Metalmark - 1 Apodemia palmeri
- Nais Metalmark - 15 Apodemia nais
- American Snout - 18 Libytheana carinenta
- Gulf Fritillary - 2 Agraulis vanillae
- Bordered Patch - 9 Chlosyne lacinia
- Tiny Checkerspot - 7 Dymasia dymas
- Elada Checkerspot - 40 Texola elada
- Texan Crescent - 5 Phyciodes texana
- Mylitta Crescent - 1 Phyciodes mylitta
- American Lady - 2 Vanessa virginiensis
- Painted Lady -1 Vanessa cardui
- Red Admiral - 1 Vanessa atalanta
- Red-spotted Purple - 7 Limenitis arthemis astyanax
- Viceroy - 1 Limenitis archippus
- ‘Arizona’ California Sister 4 Adelpha bredowii
- Empress Leilia - 32 Asterocampa leilia
- Monarch - 6 Danaus plexippus
- Queen - 13 Danaus gilippus
- Dull Firetip - 9 Pyrrhopyge araxes
- Silver-spotted Skipper - 6 Epargyreus clarus
- Golden-banded Skipper - 21 Autochton cellus
- Desert Cloudywing - 1 Achalarus casica
- Northern Cloudywing - 26 Thorybes pylades
- Acacia Skipper - 24 Cogia hippalus
- Arizona Powdered-Skipper - 1 Systasea zampa
- ‘Arizona’ Juvenal's Duskywing - 1 Erynnis juvenalis clitus
- Mournful Duskywing - 4 Erynnis tristis
- Pacuvius Duskywing - 39 Erynnis pacuvius
- Funereal Duskywing - 3 Erynnis funeralis
- Common Streaky-Skipper - 1 Celotes nessus
- Common Sootywing - 7 Pholisora catullus
- Edward's Skipperling - 1 Oarisma edwardsii
- Orange Skipperling - 5 Copaeodes aurantiacus
- Fiery Skipper - 13 Hylephila phyleus
- Taxiles Skipper - 21 Poanes taxiles
- Large Roadside-Skipper - 5 Amblyscirtes exoteria
- Cassus Roadside-Skipper - 3 Amblyscirtes cassus
- Bronze Roadside-Skipper - 5 Amblyscirtes aenus
- Unidentified Roadside-Skipper - 1 Amblyscirtes sp.
Totals: 64 species, 1097 individuals.
Bold = Highest species count