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 Merrimac Farm WMA Butterfly List
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Merrimac Farm Preliminary Butterfly List
 
SWALLOWTAILS (PAPILIONIDAE) 
Pipevine Swallowtail 
x
Zebra Swallowtail 
x
Black Swallowtail 
x
Giant Swallowtail   
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 
x
Spicebush Swallowtail 
x
WHITES AND SULPHURS(PIERIDAE) 
Checkered White   
Cabbage White 
x
Falcate Orangetip 
x
Clouded Sulphur 
x
Orange Sulphur 
x
Cloudless Sulphur 
x
Little Yellow 
x
Sleepy Orange 
x
GOSSAMER-WINGS (LYCAENIDAE) 
Harvester   
American Copper   
Coral Hairstreak   
Banded Hairstreak 
x
Striped Hairstreak   
Southern (Oak) Hairstreak   
Brown Elfin   
Henry’s Elfin   
Eastern Pine Elfin   
Olive (Juniper) Hairstreak 
x
White “M” Hairstreak 
x
Gray Hairstreak 
x
Red-banded Hairstreak 
x
Eastern Tailed-Blue 
x
Azure sp.
x
BRUSH-FOOTED BUTTERFLIES  (NYMPHALIDAE) 
American Snout 
x
Variegated Fritillary 
x
Great Spangled Fritillary 
x
Meadow Fritillary 
x
Silvery Checkerspot 
x
Pearl Crescent 
x
Question Mark 
x
Eastern Comma 
x
Mourning Cloak 
x
American Lady 
x
Painted Lady 
x
Red Admiral 
x
Common Buckeye 
x
Red-spotted Purple 
x
Viceroy 
x
Hackberry Emperor 
x
Tawny Emperor 
x
Northern Pearly-Eye 
x
Appalachian Brown 
x
Carolina Satyr 
x
Little Wood Satyr 
x
Common Wood-Nymph 
x
Monarch 
x
SKIPPERS(HESPERIIDAE) 
Silver-spotted Skipper 
x
Long-tailed Skipper   
Hoary Edge   
Southern Cloudywing   
Northern Cloudywing  
Hayhurst’s Scallopwing   
Dreamy Duskywing   
Sleepy Duskywing   
Juvenal’s Duskywing 
x
Horace’s Duskywing 
x
Wild Indigo Duskywing 
x
Common Checkered Skipper 
x
Common Sootywing 
x
Swarthy Skipper   
Clouded Skipper 
x
Least Skipper 
x
European Skipper   
Fiery Skipper   
Leonard’s Skipper   
Cobweb Skipper   
Peck’s Skipper 
x
Tawny-edged Skipper   
Crossline Skipper   
Southern Broken-Dash 
x
Northern Broken-Dash 
x
Little Glassywing   
Sachem 
x
Delaware Skipper 
x
Hobomok Skipper 
x
Zabulon Skipper 
x
Broad-winged Skipper   
Dion Skipper   
Dun Skipper 
x
Dusted Skipper   
Pepper and Salt Skipper   
Common Roadside Skipper   
Ocala
x
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