U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Butterflies and Dragonflies Texas Mid-coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex
Tiger Swallowtail Gray Hairstreak Western Pigmy Blue Cassius Blue Marine Blue Ceraunus Blue Reakirt’s Blue Eastern Tailed Blue Spring Azure
FAMILY LIBYTHEIDAE (Snout Butterflies) Snout Butterfly
FAMILY HELICONIIDAE (Longwings) Gulf Fritillary Julia Zebra The following butterflies’ and Yellow Angled Sulphur dragonflies’ ranges are expected Dog Face FAMILY NYMPHALIDAE to include Brazoria County and Cloudless Sulphur (Nymphalids) the refuges. Orange-barred Sulphur Variegated Fritillary Large Orange Sulphur Bordered Patch ORDER LEPIDOPTERA Little Yellow Silvery Checkerspot BUTTERFLIES Mexican Yellow Texan Crescent FAMILY PAPILIONIDAE Sleepy Orange Phaon Crescent (Swallowtails) Dainty Sulphur Pearl Crescent Pipe-vine Swallowtail Question Mark Black Swallowtail FAMILY LYCAENIDAE Mourning Cloak Giant Swallowtail (Gossamer-winged) Red Admiral Tiger Swallowtail Harvester American Painted Lady Spicebush Swallowtail Great Purple Hairstreak Painted Lady Palamedes Swallowtail Soapberry Hairstreak Buckeye Eastern Pine Elfin Red-spotted Purple Banded Hairstreak FAMILY PIERIDAE Queen (Whites and Sulphurs) Striped Hairstreak Checkered White Northern Hairstreak Cabbage White Red Banded Hairstreak Great Southern White Dusky-blue Hairstreak Falcate Orangetip Olive Hairstreak Orange Sulphur Henry’s Elfin White Angled Sulphur White-m Hairstreak Viceroy Northern Broken Dash Prince Baskettail Common Mestra Little Glassywing Goatweed Leafwing Sachem FAMILY LIBELLUIDAE Hackberry Emperor Broad-winged Skipper (Skimmers) Tawny Emperor Yehl Skipper Four-spotter Pennant Dun Skipper Halloween Pennant FAMILY SATYRIDAE Lace-winged Roadside Skipper Banded Pennant (Satyrs & Wood Nymphs) Celia’s Roadside Skipper Calico Pennant Southern Pearly Eye Common Roadside Skipper Eastern Pondhawk Gemmed Satyr Eufala Skipper Great Pondhawk Carolina Satyr Twin-spot Skipper Band-winged Dragonlet Little Wood Satyr Brazilian Skipper Seaside Dragonlet Common Wood Nymph Salt Marsh Skipper Slaty Skimmer Obscure Skipper Common Whitetail FAMILY DANAIDAE Ocola Skipper Needham’s Skimmer (Milkweed Butterflies) Polydamas Swallowtail Great Blue Skimmer Monarch Mexican Silverspot Widow Skimmer Queen White Peacock Greater Hyacinth Glider Roseate Skimmer FAMILY HESPERIIDAE ORDER ODONATA Blue Dasher (Skippers) DRAGONFLIES Wandering Glider Silver-spotted Skipper Spot-winged Glider FAMILY AESHNIDAE (Darners) White-striped Longtail Eastern Amberwing Common Green Darner Long-tailed Skipper Carolina Saddle Bags Comet Darner Dorantes Longtail Black-mantled Glider Regal Darner Northern Cloudywing Red-mantled Glider Swamp Darner Southern Cloudywing Confused Cloudywing Texas Mid-Coast National FAMILY GOMPHIDAE (Clubtails) Southern Scalloped Sootywing Wildlife Refuge Complex Clubtail spp. Sickle-winged Skipper 2547 CR316 Sleepy Duskywing Brazoria, TX 77422 FAMILY MACROMIIDAE (Cruisers) Juvenal’s Duskywing Phone 979-964-4011 Royal River Cruiser Horace’s Duskywing Fax 979-964-4021 Funereal Duskywing FAMILY CORDULIIDAE (Emeralds) Wild Indigo Duskywing Photographs © Greg Lavaty Common Baskettail Common Checkered Skipper Tropical Checkered Skipper Turk’s Cap Skipper Hayhurst’s Scallopwing Mazans Scallopwing Common Sootywing Swarthy Skipper Neamathla Skipper Julia’s Skipper Clouded Skipper Least Skipper Orange Skipperling Southern Skipperling Fiery Skipper Meske’s Skipper Whirlabout Southern Broken Dash