| *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 MAPWHING,
see 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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