Guadalupe Mountains National Park
Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
- Checklists
- Checklist of the Butterflies - Cary and Holland (1987)
- Lepidoptera of Guadalupe Mountains National Park - Knudson and Bordelon (1999)
- Annotated Photographs
- Butterflies
- Family Papilionidae - swallowtails and parnassians
- Two-tailed Swallowtail
- Pipevine Swallowtail
- wing scales on Pipevine Swallowtail (view through microscope)
- Family Pieridae - whites, marbles and sulphurs
- Checkered White
- Orange Sulphur
- Family Lycaenidae - coppers, hairstreaks, blues and metalmarks
- Reakirt's Blue
- Juniper Hairstreak
- Family Nymphalidae - brush-footed butterflies
- Zebra Longwing
- Variegated Fritillary
- Monarch
- American Lady
- Painted Lady
- Hackberry Emperor
- Mead's Wood-Nymph
- Family Hesperiidae - skippers
- Mournful Duskywing
- checkered-skipper
- Macromoths
- Family Saturniidae - giant silkworm and royal moths
- Glover's Silk Moth
- Hemileuca chinatiensis
- Sphingicampa sp.
- Family Sphingidae - sphinx moths or hawk moths
- White-lined Sphinx
- Great Ash Sphinx
- Family Arctiidae - tiger, lichen and wasp moths
- Ectypia sp.
- Eudesmia arida
- Ctenucha venosa - a day-flying moth
- Grammia sp.
- Pygocten sp. - a day-flying moth
- Family Geometridae - geometrid moths
- unidentified green geometrid moth
- brown speckled geometrid moth
- Pero sp.
- Family Noctuidae - owlet and other moths
- unidentified noctuid moth
- Stiria sp.
- Acontia sp. - one of the bird-dropping moths
- Family Lasiocampidae - tent caterpillars and lappet moths
- Tolype sp.
- Micromoths
- Family Pterophoridae - plume moths
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Photo Gallery
Photo Gallery - Butterflies Only
Photo Gallery - Moths Only
Specimens in the Collection on Display for Visitors
- Additional Information
- Is it a moth or a butterfly?
- Identification References
Links
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