ID PHOTO GALLERY
We would like to encourage members and others to submit photos of all life stages of butterflies from eggs to adults to food plants for inclusion in this gallery.
If you have an ID question about something that you have seen, these photos may help you resolve it. They include all sorts of butterflies: common to rare.
left to right: Ares Metalmark, Boisduval’s Yellow, Deva Skipper, Dotted Roadside-Skipper
Erichson’s White-Skipper, female Chiricahua White, Gold Costa Skipper, Gray Hairstreak
Huachuca Giant-Skipper, Juniper Hairstreak, Juvenal’s Duskywing, Little Yellow
Mimosa Yellow, Nabokov’s Satyr, Phaon Crescent, Poling’s Giant-Skipper
Queen, Reakirt’s Blue, Sheep Skipper, Silver-banded Hairstreak
Soapberry Hairstreak, Sonoran Hairstreak, Uncas Skipper, White-angled Sulphur
White-patched Skipper, Zela Metalmark, W. Tailed Blue, Arizona Metalmark
Fulvia Checkerspot, Deva Skipper, Orange-edged Roadside-Skipper, White-striped Longtail
Dull Firetip, Brown Elfin, Orange Skipperling, Black Checkerspot
Valeriana Skipper, Pacuvius Duskywing, Tailed Orange, Arizona Hairstreak
Orange-edged Roadside-Skipper
ABOVE PHOTOS: Priscilla & Hank Brodkin
Arizona Sister, Pahaska Skipper, Python Skipper, Silver-spotted Skipper
Southern Dogface, Tropical Leafwing, Acmon Blue
Black Checkerspot, Colorado Hairstreak, Colorado Hairstreak
West Coast Lady, Nais Metalmark, Nais Metalmark, Boisduval’s Yellow
Orange Sulphur, female Taxiles Skipper, male Taxiles Skipper, Thicket Hairstreak
Elf, Empress Leilia, Hammock Skipper
Red-bordred Satyr, Tawny Emperor, Theona Checkerspot
Variegated Fritillary, Western Pygmy-Blue; Arizona Powdered-Skipper
Common Streaky-Skipper; Golden-headed Scallopwing; Orange Skipperling; Pahaska Skipper
Sagebrush Checkerspot; Sagebrush Checkerspot; Sheep Skipper; Sleepy Duskywing
White-barred Skipper; White-Barred Skipper; Xami Hairstreak, Hackberry Emperor
Monarch, Tropical Buckeye (red form), Violet-clouded Skipper
Golden-headed Scallopwing, Gray Hairstreak, Red Admiral egg, Southwestern Orangetip
larva or Southwestern Orangetip, Great Purple Hairstreak, Fulvia Checkerspot, Sagebrush Checkerspot eggs
Theona Checkerspot, White-barred Skipper, Gold-costa Skipper, Sleepy Orange
Arizona Hairstreak; last 3 are all Black Checkerspot
Desert Cloudywing; Deva Skipper; Nais Metalmark; Orange-edged Roadside Skipper
Satyr Comma & Pine Satyr; Satyr Comma; eggs of Satyr Comma; Sunrise Skipper
Arachne Checkerspot; Cassus Roadside-Skipper; female Chiricahua White; female Chiricahus White
male Chiricahua White; eggs of Chiricahua White; Large Roadside-Skipper; Mexican Fritillary
larva of Mexican Yellow; Orange Sulphur; Painted Crescent; Palmer’s Metalmark
Sachem; Short-tailed Skipper; Sunrise Skipper; Taxiles Skipper
Acmon Blue; Arizona Sister larva; Gray Hairstreak; Great Purple Hairstreak
‘Siva’ Juniper Hairstreak; California Patch; Clouded Skipper; Dorantes Longtail
Elf; Goatweed Leafwing; Laviana White-Skipper; Sonoran Metalmark
White-striped Longtail; Huachuca Giant-Skipper; Red-bordered Satyr; Silver-spotted Skipper
1st 2 Sunrise Skipper; Theona Checkerspot; Acmon Blue
Barred Yellow; Boisduval’s Yellow; last 2 male Chiricahua White
1st 3 female Chiricahua White; female & male Orange Sulphurs
Large Orange Sulphur; Little Yellow; Mallow Scrub-Hairstreak; Orange Sulphur
Satyr Comma; Tropical & Common Buckeyes; Tropical Checkered-Skipper; White-patched Skipper
ABOVE PHOTOS Gary Jue
Arizona Hairstreak, Colorado Hairstreak, Soapberry Hairstreak, Russet Skipperling
Dreamy Duskywing, Queen Alexandra’s Sulphur, Leda Ministreak, Draco Skipper
Pine White, Red Satyr, Western Green Hairstreak, Four-spotted Skipperling
Small Wood-Nymph, Ruddy Copper, Hoary Comma, Satyr Comma
Edward’s Skipperling, Pacuvius Duskywing,
ABOVE PHOTOS: Tom Bethard
‘Magdalena’ Variable Checkerspot, Garita Skipperling, Great Purple Hairstreak, Acacia Skipper
Leda Ministreak, Poling’s Giant-Skipper, Arizona Giant-Skipper; Tiny Checkerspot
Zela Metalmark
ABOVE PHOTOS: Mary Kay Eiermann
Brown Elfin, Sara Orangetip, Gray Hairstreak, Arizona Powdered-Skipper
Funereal Duskywing, Black Swallowtail caterpillars, Giant Swallowtail caterpillar, Sleepy Orange & Cloudless Sulphur caterpillars
Cloudless Sulphurs: caterpillar, ready to pupate, chrysalis, newly emerged, ready to fly
Large Orange Sulphur caterpillar, Large Orange Sulphur ready to emerge; last 2 California Patch
1st 2 - Elf; Toltec Roadside-Skipper; Zela Metalmark
ABOVE PHOTOS: Cindy Bethard
Sagebrush Checkerspot, parasitic wasp on Sara Orangetip caterpillar, Spring White
Xami Hairstreak; Mexican Fritillary; Painted Crescent
Pipevine Swallowtail
ABOVE PHOTOS: Mary Klinkel
Black Swallowtail, Tropical Buckeye, Tropical Leafwing
Fiery Skipper, Texan Crescent, Giant Swallowtail
Laviana White-Skipper
ABOVE PHOTOS: Carolyn M. Vieira
For more of Carolyn’s photos, link to carolynmvieira.smugmug.com/Butterflies.
Reakirt’s Blue, Dainty Sulphur (winter form); Monarch pupa
female Orange Sulphur; Taxiles Skipper, Gray Hairstreak
Satyr Comma; Satyr Comma; Sleepy Duskywing; Nabokov’s Satyr
Short-tailed Skipper; Marine Blue; Western Pygmy Blue
Acmon Blue; Arizona Hairstreak; Golden-banded Skipper; Mourning Cloak
Mourning Cloak; Drusius Cloudywing; Drusius Cloudywing
Gold-costa Skipper; Large Roadside-Skipper; Northern Cloudywing; Theona Checkerspot
Cassus Roadside-Skipper; Empress Leilia; Empress Leilia; Two-tailed Swallowtail
Orange Skipperling; Orange Skipperling; Ares Metalmark; Ares Metalmark
American Lady; American Lady, Toltec Roadside-Skipper
first 2: Mexican Fritillary; Huachuca Giant-Skipper
first 2: Red-spotted Purple; Gulf Fritillary
American Snout; female Chiricahua White; Sleepy Orange
puddling Bordered Patches; mating color forms of Common Buckeyes; male W. Pygmy Blue; female W. Pygmy Blue
Sleepy Orange; Tailed Orange; wet season Tailed Orange; intermediate form Tailed Orange
winter form Tailed Orange; next 2 Mexican Yellow
ABOVE PHOTOS: Bob Parks