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Oregon Butterfly Hotspots
The chart below, prepared by former local NABA Chapter Treasurer, Paul Severns, lists typical
butterflies that you might find at these prime Oregon butterfly habitat locations:
| BM |
Bohemia mines, Lane County |
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SM |
Steens Mountain,
Harney County |
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| MP |
Mary's Peak, Benton County |
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WM |
Wallowa Mountains, Wallowa County |
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| MR |
Metolius River, Jefferson County |
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MA |
Mount Ashland, Jackson County |
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The list below uses butterfly names from the "English Names for North American Butterflies," NABA, 2001.
For cross-referencing with other sources, see our translations page.
| # |
Butterfly Species |
BM |
MP |
MR |
SM |
WM |
MA |
| 1 |
Phoebus Parnassian |
|
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 2 |
Clodius Parnassian |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 3 |
Pale Swallowtail |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 4 |
Western Tiger Swallowtail |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 5 |
Anise Swallowtail |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 6 |
Indra Swallowtail |
|
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 7 |
Two-tailed swallowtail |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
| 8 |
Pine White |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 9 |
Becker's White |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
| 10 |
Spring White |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 11 |
Checkered White |
|
|
|
Y |
|
|
| 12 |
Western White |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 13 |
Mustard White |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 14 |
Large Marble |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 15 |
Pearly Marble |
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
| 16 |
Sara Orange Tip |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 17 |
Gray Marble |
|
|
|
|
|
Y |
| 18 |
Clouded Sulphur |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 19 |
Orange Sulphur |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 20 |
Western Sulphur |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 21 |
Alexandra's Sulphur |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
| 22 |
Pelidne Sulphur |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
| 23 |
Pink-Edged Sulphur |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
|
| # |
Butterfly Species |
BM |
MP |
MR |
SM |
WM |
MA |
| 21 |
Alexandra's Sulphur |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
| 22 |
Pelidne Sulphur |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
| 23 |
Pink-Edged Sulphur |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
|
| 24 |
Tailed Copper |
Y |
|
|
|
|
Y |
| 25 |
American Copper |
|
|
|
|
Y |
|
| 26 |
Lustrous Copper |
|
|
|
Y |
|
|
| 27 |
Great Copper |
|
Y |
|
|
|
Y |
| 28 |
Edith's Copper |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 29 |
Gorgon Copper |
|
|
|
|
|
Y |
| 30 |
Ruddy Copper |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
| 31 |
Blue Copper |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 32 |
Purplish Copper |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 33 |
Lilac-bordered Copper |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 34 |
Mariposa Copper |
Y |
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 35 |
Golden Hairstreak |
Y |
Y |
|
|
|
Y |
| 36 |
Great Purple Hairstreak |
|
|
|
|
|
Y |
| 37 |
Coral Hairstreak |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
| 38 |
Behr's Hairstreak |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
| 39 |
Sooty Hairstreak |
|
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
| 40 |
California Hairstreak |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| # |
Butterfly Species |
BM |
MP |
MR |
SM |
WM |
MA |
| 41 |
Sylvan Hairstreak |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 42 |
Hedgerow Hairstreak |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 43 |
Bramble Hairstreak |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
|
|
| 44 |
Sheridan's Hairstreak |
|
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
| 45 |
Thicket Hairstreak |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 46 |
Johnson's Hairstreak |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
| 47 |
Juniper Hairstreak |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
| 48 |
Brown Elfin |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
| 49 |
Moss' Elfin |
Y |
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 50 |
Western Pine Elfin |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 51 |
Gray Hairstreak |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 52 |
Eastern Tailed Blue |
Y |
Y |
|
|
|
Y |
| 53 |
Western Tailed Blue |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 54 |
Spring Azure Blue |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 55 |
Square-spotted blue |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 56 |
Dotted Blue |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
| 57 |
Arrowhead Blue |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 58 |
Silvery Blue |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 59 |
Northern Blue |
Y |
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 60 |
Melissa Blue |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
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| # |
Butterfly Species |
BM |
MP |
MR |
SM |
WM |
MA |
| 61 |
Greenish Blue |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 62 |
Boisduval's Blue |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 63 |
Shasta Blue |
|
|
Y |
Y |
|
|
| 64 |
Acmon Blue |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 65 |
Lupine Blue |
|
|
Y |
|
|
|
| 66 |
Arctic Blue |
|
|
|
|
|
Y |
| 67 |
Mormon Metalmark |
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|
|
Y |
|
|
| 68 |
Great Spangled Fritillary |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
|
| 69 |
Coronis Fritillary |
|
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 70 |
Zerene Fritillary |
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 71 |
Callippe Fritillary |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 72 |
Egleis Fritillary |
|
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 73 |
Atlantis Fritillary |
Y |
|
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 74 |
Hydaspe Fritillary |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 75 |
Mormon Fritillary |
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|
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
| 76 |
Western Meadow Fritillary |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 77 |
Leanira Checkerspot |
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|
Y |
|
Y |
| 78 |
Northern Checkerspot |
Y |
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 79 |
Sagebruch Checkerspot |
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|
Y |
|
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| 80 |
Hoffman's Checkerspot |
Y |
|
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|
|
Y |
| # |
Butterfly Species |
BM |
MP |
MR |
SM |
WM |
MA |
| 81 |
Field Cresent |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 82 |
California Cresent |
|
|
|
|
|
Y |
| 83 |
Mylitta Cresent |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 84 |
Anicia Variable Checkerspot |
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|
|
Y |
Y |
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| 85 |
Chalcedon Variable Checkerspot |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 86 |
Edith's Checkerspot |
Y |
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 87 |
Satyr Comma |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 88 |
Green Comma |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
|
| 89 |
Hoary Comma |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 90 |
Gray Comma |
Y |
Y |
|
|
Y |
Y |
| 91 |
Compton Tortoise Shell |
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|
Y |
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| 92 |
California Tortoise Shell |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 93 |
Mourning Cloak |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 94 |
Milbert's Tortoise Shell |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 95 |
American Lady |
Y |
Y |
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 96 |
Painted Lady |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 97 |
West Coast Lady |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 98 |
Red Admiral |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 99 |
Common Buckeye |
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|
|
Y |
|
Y |
| 100 |
Viceroy |
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|
Y |
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| # |
Butterfly Species |
BM |
MP |
MR |
SM |
WM |
MA |
| 101 |
Lorquin's Admiral |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 102 |
California Sister |
Y |
Y |
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|
Y |
| 103 |
Common Ringlet |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 104 |
Common Wood-Nymph |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 105 |
Great Basin Wood-Nymph |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 106 |
Small Wood-Nymph |
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|
Y |
Y |
Y |
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| 107 |
Common Alpine |
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Y |
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| 108 |
Great Arctic |
Y |
Y |
Y |
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|
Y |
| 109 |
Silver Spotted Skipper |
Y |
Y |
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Y |
| 110 |
Northern Cloudy wing |
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Y |
Y |
| 111 |
Mexican Cloudy Wing |
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Y |
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| 112 |
Dreamy Dusky Wing |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
| 113 |
Propertius Dusky Wing |
Y |
Y |
Y |
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|
Y |
| 114 |
Persius Dusky Wing |
Y |
Y |
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|
Y |
Y |
| 115 |
Two-banded Checkered Skipper |
Y |
Y |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
| 116 |
Common Checkered Skipper |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 117 |
Northern White-Skipper |
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Y |
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| 118 |
Arctic Skipper |
Y |
|
Y |
|
Y |
Y |
| 119 |
Juba Skipper |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 120 |
Common Branded Skipper |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
Y |
| 121 |
Woodland Skipper |
Y |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
Y |
| 122 |
Common Roadside Skipper |
Y |
Y |
Y |
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Y |
Y |
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