seen in Embudito Canyon (2011-2019) Photographs of sixty-four butterfly species from 2011 to 2019. Contact Joe Schelling at [email protected] or visit the website http://sandianet.com/embudito/index.htm for more information. PAPILONIDAE (SWALLOWTAILS)

Black Swallowtail Two-tailed Swallowtail Papilio polyxenes Papilio multicaudata

Western Tiger Swallowtail Papilio rutulus PIERIDAE (WHITES AND SULPHURS)

Checkered White Clouded Sulphur Pontia protodice Colias philodice

Dainty Sulphur Orange Sulphur Nathalis iole Colias eurytheme Butterfly Species – Embudito Canyon

Sleepy Orange Southern Dogface Abaeis nicippe Zerene cesonia

Southern Rocky Mountain Orangetip Spring White Anthocharis julia Pontia sisymbrii (GOSSAMER-WINGS)

Acmon Blue Gray Hairstreak (Plebejus acmon) Strymon melinus

Great Purple Hairstreak Juniper Hairstreak Atlides halesus gryneus

Marine Blue Reakirt’s Blue Leptotes marina Echinargus isola

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Sandia Hairstreak Spring Azure Callophrys mcfarlandi Brephidium exile

Western Pygmy-Blue Brephidium exilis RIODINIDAE (METALMARKS)

Mormon Metalmark Apodemia mormo NYMPHALIDAE (BRUSHFOOTS)

American Lady American Snout Vanessa virginiensis Libytheana carinenta

Arizona Sister Bordered Patch Adelpha eulalia Chlosyne lacinia

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Canyonland Satyr California Tortoiseshell Cyllopsis pertepida Nymphalis californica

Common Buckeye Field Crescent Junonia coenia Phyciodes pulchella

Fulvia Checkerspot Hackberry Emperor Chlosyne fulvia Asterocampa celtis

Hoary Comma Monarch Polygonia gracilis Danaus plexippus

Mourning Cloak Mylitta Crescent Nymphalis antiopa Phyciodes mylitta

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Painted Lady Queen Vanessa cardui Danaus plexippus

Question Mark Red Admiral Poygonia interrogationis Vanessa atalanta

Variegated Fritillary Weidemeyer’s Admiral Euptoieta claudia Limenitis weidemeyerii

West Coast Lady Vanessa annabella HESPERIIDAE (SKIPPERS)

Apache Bronze Roadside-Skipper Hesperia woodgatei Amblyscirtes aenus

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Common Checkered-Skipper Common Sootywing Pyrgus communis Pholisora cattulus

Dotted Roadside-Skipper Dun Skipper Amblyscirtes eos Euphyes vestris

Fiery Skipper Funereal Hylephila phyleus Erynnis funeralis

Green Skipper Horace’s Duskywing Hesperia viridis Erynnis horatius

Meridian Duskywing Mexican Sootywing Erynnis meridianus Pholisora mejicanus

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Northern Cloudywing Orange Skipperling Thorybes pylades Copaeodes aurantiaca

Pahaska Skipper Python Skipper Hesperia pahaska Atrytonopsis python

Rocky Mountain Duskywing Short-tailed Skipper Erynnis telemachus Zestusa dorus

Silver-spotted Skipper Viereck’s Skipper Epargyreus clarus Atrytonopsis vierecki

Sleepy Duskywing Giant-Skipper Erynnis brizo Megathymus yuccae

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