Sonora, Mexico has a rich lepidopteran fauna
with over 300 species of butterflies recorded. Butterflies seen on our
spring, summer, and fall trips have included the following. Thanks to Jim
Brock and Hank & Priscilla Brodkin for their identification expertise.
Skippers (Hesperidae)
Dull firetip
Golden-banded skipper
Common/White-checkered skipper
Tropical checkered skipper
Desert checkered skipper
Northern cloudywing
Drusius cloudywing
Mournful duskywing
Juvenal's duskywing
Funereal duskywing
Two-barred flasher
Zilpa longtail
White-striped longtail
Motteld longtail
Mexican longtail
Dorantes longtail
Common mottled skipper
Acacia skipper
Texas powdered skipper
Golden-headed scallopwing
Wind's silverdrop
Potrillo skipper
White spurwing
Dark spurwing
Laviana white skipper
Erichson's white skipper
White-patched skipper
Many-spotted skipperling
Miller's skipperling
Hour-glass skipperling
Fine-spotted skipperling
Orange-headed roadside skipper
Elissa roadside skipper
Toltec roadside skipper
Black roadside skipper
Tropical least skipper
Cestus skipper
Sheep skipper
Fiery skipper
Carus skipper
Dun's skipper
Zabulon skipper
Swallowtails (Papilionidae)
Pipevine swallowtail
Giant swallowtail
Avocado swallowtail
Two-tailed swallowtail
White-dotted cattleheart
Whites & Sulphurs (Pieridae)
Checkered white
Great southern white
Florida white
Orange sulphur
Southern dogface
White-angled sulphur
Yellow-angled sulphur
Cloudless sulphur
Large orange sulphur
Orange-barred sulphur
Lyside sulphur
Mexican Yellow
Boisduval's yellow
Barred yellow
Dina yellow
Tailed orange
Mimosa yellow
Sleepy orange
Dainty sulphur
Blues & Hairstreaks (Lycaenidae)
Great purple hairstreak
Mountain greenstreak
Clench's greenstreak
Xami greenstreak
Mountain groundstreak
Mexican M hairstreak
Leda ministreak
Gray ministreak
Clytie ministreak
Marius scrub hairstreak
Yojoa scrub hairstreak
Lantana scrub hairstreak
Creamy stripestreak
Red-lined scrub hairstreak
Black hairstreak
Western pygmy blue
Marine blue
Ceraunus blue
Reakirt's blue
Metalmarks (Riodinidae)
Maria's metalmark
Hypoglaucous metalmark
Hepburn's metalmark
Fatal metalmark
Arizona metalmark
Poeas metalmark
Palmer's metalmark
Bumblebee metalmark
Crescent metalmark
Snouts (Libytheidae)
American snout
Brush-footed butterflies (Nymphalidae)
Gulf fritillary
Variegated fritillary
Mexican fritillary
Zebra
Bordered patch
Rosita patch
Red-spotted patch
Definite patch
Elf
Tiny checkerspot
Black checkerspot
Texan crescent
Mourning cloak
American lady
Painted lady
Tropical buckeye
Red-spotted admiral
California sister
Blackened bluewing
Common mestra
Glaucous cracker
Black-patched cracker
Tropical leafwing
Empress leilia
Dusky emperor
White-spotted satyr
Red-bordered satyr
Reddish satyr
Variable satyr
Gemmed satyr
Painted lady
American lady
West Coast lady
Monarch
Queen
Viceroy
