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

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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