Category: Species Profile
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Species Profile: Common Buckeye
Dave Nunnallee WBA Cofounder and Former Board Member, Coauthor of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
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Species Profile: Clodius Parnassian
Dave Nunnallee WBA Cofounder and Former Board Member, Coauthor of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
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Species Profile: Sylvan Hairstreak, Satyrium sylvinus
Hairstreaks belong to the large worldwide family Lycaenidae, which also includes all blues, coppers and metalmarks. Hairstreaks are small butterflies, often with tail-like extensions or “hairstreaks” on their hind wings, particularly in members of the genus Satyrium. In Washington State there are eighteen species of hairstreaks, six of them in the genus Satyrium. Butterflies in…
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Species Profile: Arrowhead Blue, Glaucopsyche piasus
The Arrowhead Blue is a member of the family Lycaenidae, the large worldwide family of butterflies which includes all blues, coppers and hairstreaks. In Washington there are 46 species of lycaenids, 20 of which are blues. Only two of Washington’s blues are in the genus Glaucopsyche, this species and the closely-related Silvery Blue, Glaucopsyche lygdamus.…
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Species Profile: Vidler’s Alpine
Dave Nunnallee WBA Cofounder and Former Board Member, Coauthor of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
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Species Profile: Eastern Tailed Blue, Cupido comyntas
The Eastern Tailed Blue is a member of the family Lycaenidae, the large worldwide family of butterflies which includes all blues, coppers, hairstreaks and metalmarks. In Washington there are about 45 species of lycaenids, about 19 of which are blues. We have two species of Cupido, the Eastern Tailed Blue and the Western Tailed Blue.Cupido…
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Species Profile: Hedgerow Hairstreak
Dave Nunnallee WBA Cofounder and Former Board Member, Coauthor of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
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Species Profile: Sara Orangetip
Dave Nunnallee WBA Cofounder and Former Board Member, Coauthor of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
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Species Profile: Pale Crescent, Phyciodes pallidus
In Washington State we have ten species of butterflies which are loosely grouped as “checkerspots” owing to the cancellate or squarish patterning of intersecting lines on the wings. Our checkerspots are scientifically grouped into three separate genera, Euphydryas, the “true checkerspots” to many lepidopterists, Phyciodes, also known as the “crescents” and including this species, and…
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Species Profile: Hoffmann’s Checkerspot, Chlosyne hoffmanni
In Washington State we have ten species of butterflies which are loosely grouped as “checkerspots” owing to the cancellate or squarish patterning of intersecting lines on the wings. Our checkerspots are scientifically grouped into three separate genera, Euphydryas, the “true checkerspots” to many lepidopterists, Phyciodes, also known as the “crescents”, and Chlosyne, the remaining checkerspots…
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Species Profile: Astarte Fritillary, Boloria astarte
Fritillaries belong to the very large worldwide family Nymphalidae, the Brushfoots. All fritillaries have a similar appearance dorsally, tawny-orange to carrot-orange with a complex pattern of black lines and dashes. The lesser fritillaries, in the genus Boloria, are smaller than their “greater” relatives and have white or yellow ventral hindwing spots (silvered in one species)…
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Species Profile: Silver Spotted Skipper
Dave Nunnallee WBA Cofounder and Former Board Member, Coauthor of Life Histories of Cascadia Butterflies
