Santa Rita Mountains Summer

Date & Time: 
July 26, 2024 -
8:00am to 4:30pm
Meeting Place: 
TBD
Compiler: 
Greg Greene
Compiler Email: 
greenecycle@hotmail.com

The Count Circle includes Montosa, Madera, Florida, Box and Gardner Canyons and surrounding areas in the Santa Rita Mountains. Santa Rita Mountains counts are held twice, one in the summer and one in the fall. Last year this count recorded 69 species.

Contact compiler Greg Green if you want to participate in this count.

Trip Butterfly Reports: 

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.

  1. Pipevine Swallowtail                         Battus philenor  62
  2. Black Swallowtail                                Papilio polyxenes  1
  3. Two-tailed Swallowtail                     Papilio multicaudata  46
  4. Checkered White                               Pontia protodice  23
  5. Orange Sulphur                                   Colias eurytheme  80
  6. Southern Dogface                              Colias cesonia  37
  7. Cloudless Sulphur                              Phoebis sennae  43
  8. Lyside Sulphur                                     Kricogonia lyside  1
  9. Mexican Yellow                                   Eurema Mexicana  61
  10. Sleepy Orange                                     Eurema nicippe  46
  11. Dainty Sulphur                                    Nathalis iole  20
  12. Colorado Hairstreak                          Hypaurotis crysalus  1
  13. Thicket Hairstreak                              Callophrys spinetorum  1
  14. Siva' Juniper Hairstreak                    Callophrys gryneus siva 1
  15. Gray Hairstreak                                   Strymon melinus  10
  16. Leda Ministreak                                  Ministrymon leda  1
  17. Arizona Hairstreak                             Erora quaderna  1
  18. Marine Blue                                          Leptotes marina  66
  19. Ceraunus Blue                                     Hemiargus ceraunus  14
  20. Reakirt’s Blue                                       Hemiargus isola  22
  21. ‘Echo’ Spring Azure                           Celastrina ladon   419
  22. Acmon Blue                                          Plebejus acmon texana  2
  23. Fatal Metalmark                                 Calephelis nemesis  1
  24. Zela Metalmark                                  Emesis zela  4
  25. Ares Metalmark                                  Emesis ares  1
  26. Mormon Metalmark                         Apodemia mormo  5
  27. Palmer's Metalmark                         Apodemia palmeri  1
  28. American Snout                                  Libytheana carinenta  8
  29. Gulf Fritillary                                         Agraulis vanilla  5
  30. Variegated Fritillary                           Euptoieta claudia  5
  31. Theona Checkerspot                        Chlosyne Theona  6
  32. Bordered Patch                                   Chlosyne lacinia  6
  33. Tiny Checkerspot                               Dymasia dymas  12
  34. Elada Checkerspot                            Texola elada  5
  35. Mourning Cloak                                  Nymphalis antiopa  3
  36. Painted Lady                                        Vanessa cardui  18
  37. Common Buckeye                             Junonia coenia  11
  38. ‘Dark’ Tropical Buckeye                   J.genoveva nigrosuffusa 1
  39. Red-spotted Purple                          Limenitis arthemis astyanax  17
  40. ‘Arizona’ California Sister                Adelpha bredowii  35
  41. Tropical Leafwing                              Anaea aidea 1
  42. Hackberry Emperor                           Asterocampa celtis  2
  43. Empress Leilia                                      Asterocampa leilia  44
  44. Tawny Emperor                                  Asterocampa clyton  8
  45. Nabokov's Satyr                                  Cyllopsis pyracmon  2
  46. Red Satyr                                               Megisto rubricata  20
  47. Queen                                                    Danaus gilippus  17
  48. Silver-spotted Skipper                     Epargyreus clarus  1
  49. Arizona Skipper                                  Codatractus arizonensis  3
  50. Golden-banded Skipper                  Autochton cellus  1
  51. Northern Cloudywing                       Thorybes pylades  14
  52. Drusius Cloudywing                          Thorybes drusius  1
  53. Acacia Skipper                                     Cogia hippalus  21
  54. Golden-headed Scallopwing          Staphylus ceos  158
  55. Arizona Powdered-Skipper            Systasea zampa  10
  56. Mournful Duskywing                        Erynnis tristis  3
  57. Pacuvius Duskywing                          Erynnis pacuvius  8
  58. Funereal Duskywing                         Erynnis funeralis  3
  59. Common Sootywing                         Pholisora Catullus  29
  60. Orange Skipperling                            Copaeodes aurantiacus  34
  61. Taxiles Skipper                                    Poanes taxiles  18
  62. Moon-marked Skipper                    Atrytonopsis lunus  2
  63. Large Roadside-Skipper                  Amblyscirtes exoteria  7
  64. Cassus Roadside-Skipper                Amblyscirtes cassus  8
  65. Bronze Roadside-Skipper               Amblyscirtes aenus  10
  66. Elissa Roadside-Skipper                   Amblyscirtes elissa  1

Erema sp?  7

Erynnis sp?  5

Total Individuals:  1534