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Saskatoon Area Butterfly Checklist Saskatoon Area Butterfly Checklist Plains Skipper Hesperia assiniboia FC COPPERS PLAIS Jul 3 - Sep 13 Gray Copper Lycaena dione U This checklist contains 82 species of butterflies known to Nevada Skipper Herperia nevada U GRACP Jun 24 - Aug 14 be present in the Saskatoon Birding Area (see Saskatoon NEVAS May 27 - Sep 9 Bronze Copper Lycaena hyllus U Area Birds - A Seasonal Checklist map for area Peck's Skipper Polites peckius C BROCP Jun 23 - Sep 19 boundaries). Common and scientific names are provided PECKS Jun 14 - Sep 27 Purplish Copper Lycaena helloides FC for each species, along with the 'banding' code, flight period Tawny-edged Skipper Polites themistocles U PURCP May 18 - Oct 20 and abundance. When only a single record exists, the year recorded is provided. The information provided in this TAWES Jun 13 - Aug 15 checklist was extracted from Saskatchewan Butterflies - An Long Dash Skipper Polites mystic C HAIRSTREAKS Annotated Field Checklist (1999) by Bernie Gollop and Ron LONDS Jun 9 - Sep 13 Acadian Hairstreak Satyrium acadica U Hooper, Saskatchewan Butterflies (1998-2003), compiled Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides R ACADH Jul 5 - Aug 24 by Anna Leighton, and from the field notes of local butterfly WOODS Jul 26 - Sep 15 Coral Hairstreak Satyrium titus FC enthusiasts. Hobomok Skipper Poanes hobomok U CORAH Jun 25 - Aug 24 HOBOS May 23 - Jul 9 Striped Hairstreak Satyrium liparops U Craig Salisbury, Anna Leighton and Mike Gollop Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris FC STRIH Jun 22 - Aug 27 April, 2020 DUNSK Jun 18 - Aug 20 Common Roadside-Skipper Amblyscirtes vialis C ELFINS Abundance COMRS May 11 - Jul 12 Brown Elfin Callophrys augustinus U VC - Very Common, C - Common, FC - Fairly Common BROEL May 13 - Jul 15 U - Uncommon, R - Rare SWALLOWTAILS Hoary Elfin Callophrys polios FC Old World Swallowtail Papilio machaon R HOAEL Apr 30 - Jun 26 SPREAD-WING SKIPPERS OLWSW May 6 - Aug 20 Eastern Pine Elfin Callophrys niphon R Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus FC Canadian Tiger Swallowtail Papilio canadensis VC EAPEL May 11, 2011 SILSS May 18 - Aug 8 CATSW May 7 - Jul 29 Gray Hairstreak Strymon melinus R Northern Cloudywing Thorybes pylades U GRAYH May 19 - Sep 19 NORCL May 20 - Aug 2 WHITES Dreamy Duskywing Erynnis icelus FC Checkered White Pontia protodice R BLUES DREDU May 9 - Jul 30 CHEWH Jun 29 - Sep 19 Western Tailed-Blue Everes amyntula C Afranius Duskywing Erynnis afranius U Western White Pontia occidentalis C WESTB May 16 - Jul 31 AFRDU May 5 - Sep 1 WESWH Apr 20 - Oct 13 Spring Azure Celastrina ladon VC Persius Duskywing Erynnis persius C Cabbage White Pieris rapae VC SPRAZ Apr 20 - Aug 30 PERDU May 4 - Aug 15 CABWH Apr 4 - Oct 20 Silvery Blue Glaucopsyche lygdamus C Common Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus communis FC Olympia Marble Euchloe olympia U SILVB May 2 - Jul 26 COMCS May 13 - Oct 13 OLYMA May 11 - Jul 18 Melissa Blue Lycaeides melissa C MELIB May 16 - Oct 4 GRASS SKIPPERS SULPHURS Greenish Blue Plebejus saepiolus C Arctic Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon U Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice VC GREEB May 15 - Aug 5 ARCTS May 20 - Jul 9 CDDSU May 3 - Oct 30 Arctic Blue Agriades glandon C Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor R Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme FC ARCTB May 14 - Oct 7 LEASS Jun 23 - Jul 31 ORASU May 12 - Oct 21 Garita Skipperling Oarisma garita C Queen Alexandra's Sulphur Colias alexandra U GARIS May 26 - Aug 9 QUASU May 27 - Aug 26 European Skipper Thymelicus lineola R Christina Sulphur Colias christina U EUROS Jul 7 - Jul 11 CHRSU Jun 7 - Sep 22 FRITILLARIES Gray Comma Polygonia progne C Variegated Fritillary Euptoieta claudia C GRACM Mar 31 - Oct 12 Suggested Field Guides: VARIF May 20 - Oct 18 Compton Tortoiseshell Nymphalis vaualbum VC Great Spangled Fritillary Speyeria cybele C COMTO Mar 26 - Oct 29 Layberry, R.A., Hall, P.W. & LaFontaine, J.D., The GRESF Jun 17 - Sep 13 California Tortoiseshell Nymphalis californica R Butterflies of Canada (1998) University of Toronto Aphrodite Fritillary Speyeria aphrodite FC CALTO Aug 4 - Oct 7 Press, Toronto, ON. APHRF Jun 7 - Sep 20 Mourning Cloak Nymphalis antiopa VC Regal Fritillary Speyeria idalia R MOUCL Mar 13 - Nov 3 Acorn, J., Butterflies of Alberta (1993) Lone Pine REGAF Aug 8, 2012 Milbert's Tortoiseshell Nymphalis milberti VC Publishing, Edmonton, AB. Callippe Fritillary Speyeria callippe FC MILTO Mar 17 - Oct 30 CALLF May 20 - Aug 20 Painted Lady Vanessa cardui C Allen, T.J., Brock, J.P. & Glassberg, J., Caterpillars Atlantis Fritillary Speyeria atlantis R PAILA Apr 30 - Oct 18 in the Field and Garden (2005) Oxford University ATLAF Jun 19 - Sep 4 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta C Press, New York, NY. Northwestern Fritillary Speyeria atlantis hesperis C REDAD Apr 27 - Oct 24 NORTF May 25 - Oct 4 Glassberg, J., A Swift Guide to Butterflies of North Mormon Fritillary Speyeria mormonia U ADMIRALS AND RELATIVES America (2017) Princeton University Press, MORMF Jun 13 - Sep 30 White Admiral Limenitis arthemis arthemis C Princeton, NJ. Silver-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene U WHIAD May 29 - Aug 22 SILBF May 31 - Sep 15 Viceroy Limenitis archippus U Meadow Fritillary Boloria bellona C VICER Jun 20 - Aug 23 MEADF May 11 - Sep 21 Freija Fritillary Boloria freija R SATYRS FREIF May 19, 2006 Northern Pearly-eye Enodia anthedon R NORPE Jun 14 - Sep 7 TRUE BRUSH-FOOTS Common Ringlet Coenonympha tullia C Gorgone Checkerspot Chlosyne gorgone U COMRI May 11 - Sep 7 GORGC May 17 - Jul 18 Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala C Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos C COWNY Jun 19 - Sep 14 PEACT May 4 - Sep 27 Red-disked Alpine Erebia discoidalis C Northern Crescent Phyciodes selenis C REKAL Apr 21 - Jun 29 NORCT May 18 - Oct 7 Common Alpine Erebia epipsodea C Tawny Crescent Phyciodes batesii FC COMAL May 13 - Jul 12 TAWCT May 31 - Sep 12 Ridings' Satyr Neominois ridingsii U RIDSA Jun 10 - Jul 25 COMMAS Uhler's Arctic Oeneis uhleri C Question Mark Polygonia interrogationis R UHLAR May 12 - July 14 QUEMA Jun 28 - Aug 5 Alberta Arctic Oeneis alberta FC Satyr Comma Polygonia satyrus C ALBAR May 3 - Jun 7 SATCM Mar 31 - Oct 21 Monarch Danaus plexippus U Green Comma Polygonia faunus U MONAR May 26 - Sep 19 GRECM Apr 17 - Oct 12.
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