BUTTERFLIES
SEEN AT
YERBA BUENA RESERVE
in Oak-Pine-Sweetgum Forest & Cloudforest
elevation between 1700 and 2500 meters, and ± LAT 17° 11' 27"N,  LONG -92° 53' 35"W,
about two kilometers north of Pueblo Nuevo Solistahuacan, Chiapas

*Species listed below with a * were identified during a 1986 expedition by  undergraduates of the UK's University of East Anglia. Photos by Jim Conrad, Nov 2007-Jan 2008.

ARRANGED BY DOMINANT
WING COLOR
& CONSIPICUOUS MARKINGS

(the prefex cf. means "pretty sure of ID, but not absolutely")

BLACK & WHITE:

  • Eurema mexicana mexicana (Pieridae), MEXICAN YELLOW, see photo
  • Leptophobia aripa* (Pieridae), MOUNTAIN WHITE, medium, black markings on forewing margins, clearings
  • Manataria hercyna maculata* (Satyridae), WHITE-SPOTTED SATYR, large, nocturnal, rests days on pine trunks
  • Pyrgus communis (Hesperiidae), CHECKERED SKIPPER, small, black with white speckles
  • Pyrgus oileus (Hesperiidae), TROPICAL CHECKERED-SKIPPER, see photo

Pyrgus oileus, Tropical Checkered-Skipper

  • Heliopetes arsalte (Hesperiidae), VEINED WHITE-SKIPPER, see photo

BROWN:

  • Achlyodes busirus heros* (Hesperiidae), GIANT SICKLEWING, largish skipper, wings velvety to touch
  • Anetia thirza thirza* (Danaidae), CLOUD-FOREST KING, large, brown & red with white upper wing markings
  • Cyclogramma pandama* (Danaidae), brown with red stripe and white spot on forewing
  • Hypanartia dione disjunctaI* (Nymphalidae), BANDED MAPWING, see photo
  • cf. Lerema accius accius (Hesperiidae), CLOUDED SKIPPER, see photo
  • Megisto hermes* (Satyridae), a small/medium "Wood Satyr," basks in bright sunlight, pine-oak
  • Pedaliodes pisonia* (Satyridae), reddish-brown with light orange borders
  • Vettius coryna* (Hesperiidae), SILVER-PLATED SKIPPER, medium, with silver on undersides of forewings
  • Emesis tenedia (Riodinidae), FALCATE EMESIS,  see photo
  • Fountainea glycerium glycerium (Nymphalidae), ANGLED LEAFWING,  see photo
  • Ziegleria syllis (Lycaenidae), SKY-BLUE GROUNDSTREAK,  see photo

BROWN & WHITE:

  • Autochton vectilucis (Hesperiidae), CENTRAL AMERICAN BANDED SKIPPER, see photo
  • Vettius coryna argentus (Hesperiidae), 'CHIAPAN' SILVER-PLATED SKIPPER, see photo
  • Carrhenes canescens canescdens (Hesperiidae), HOARY SKIPPER, see photo

YELLOW:

  • Eurema salome jamapa (Pieridae), SALOME YELLOW, see photo
  • Anteos chlorinde* (Pieridae), WHITE-ANGLED SULPHUR, large, abundant in clearings
  • Anteos maerula* (Pieridae), YELLOW-ANGLED SULPHUR, black spot on forewing

YELLOW & BLACK:

  • Dismorphia crisia virgo* (Pieridae), CRISIA MIMIC-WHITE, medium, black with yellow markings, pine-oak
  • Dismorphia nemesis* (Pieridae), medium, yellow with black above, basks on forest floor
  • Eurema mexicana* (Pieridae), MEXICAN YELLOW, medium, yellow with dark markings, cornfields
  • Colias eurytheme* (Pieridae), ORANGE SULPHUR, as above but without scalloped lower wing margins
  • Pieriballia viardi viardi (Pieridae), IARDI WHITE, see photo

ORANGE:

  • Euptoieta hegesia* (Nymphalidae), MEXICAN FRITILLARY, white spots, ring of brown spots on wings
  • Emesis tenedia (Riodinidae), FALCATE EMESIS, see photo

ORANGE & BLACK:

  • Dione juno huascuma* (Heliconiidae), JUNO LONGWING, medium, black veins above, silvery underwings
  • Dione moneta poeyii (Heliconiidae), MEXICAN SILVERSPOT, see photo
  • Dircennia klugii (Ithomiidae), clearwing, see photo
  • Hypanartia lethe (Nymphalidae), ORANGE MAPWHINGsee photo
  • cf. Quinta cannae (Hesperiidae), CANNA SKIPPER, see photo

ORANGE & BROWN:

ORANGE, WHITE & BROWN:

  • Vanessa virginiensis (Nymphalidae), AMERICAN PAINTED LADY, see photo

ORANGE-YELLOW:

  • Enantia melite* (Pieridae), MEXICAN SULPHUR,   broad, dark brown wing margins, clearings
  • Phoebis philea philea (Pieridae), ORANGE-BARRED SULPHUR, see photo

CLEAR WINGS:

  • Episcada salvinia* (Ithomiidae), SALVIN'S CLEARWING, medium, brown margins, white markings on forewings
  • Greta annette (Ithomiidae), WHITE-SPOTTED CLEARWING, see photo

RED, BLACK & WHITE:

  • Adelpha donysa donysa (Nymphalidae), DONYSA SISTER, see photo
  • Diaethria anna anna (Nymphalidae), ANNA'S EIGHTY-EIGHT, see photo (top); see photo (side)

MISC:

  • Diaethria bacchis (Nymphalidae), WHITE-PATCHED EIGHTY-EIGHT, see photo
  • Lieinix nemesis (Pieridae), FROSTED MIMIC-WHITE, see photo
  • Pereute charops nigricans (Pieridae), DARKENED WHITE, see photo
  • Urbanus sp? (Hesperiidae), a long-tailed skipper with a blue body, see photo

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