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Butterflies of Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in Texas. Published by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS).
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Butterflies of
Trinity River
National Wildlife Refuge
Established in 1994, the 25,000-acre
Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge
is a remnant of what was once a much
larger, frequently flooded, bottomland
hardwood forest. You are still able to
view vast expanses of ridge and swale
floodplain features, numerous bayous,
oxbow lakes, and cypress/tupelo swamps
along the Trinity River. It is one of only 14
priority-one bottomland sites identified
for protection in the Texas Bottomland
Protection Plan. This type of habitat
is used during migration or nesting by
nearly 50 percent of the migratory bird
species listed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service. Over 275 species of birds occur
in the hardwood forest and associated
wetlands in eastern Texas; while over 100
bird species are known to breed there.
These forests also support a wide diversity
of mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and fish
including the federally listed bald eagle
and alligator.
For more information, visit our website:
http://southwest.fws.gov/refuges/texas/
trinityriver
Contact the Refuge staff if you should
find an unlisted or rare species during
your visit and provide a description.
Creole Pearly-eye, (Enodia creola).
Photograph by Mike Blessington/USFWS
Swallowtails (Papilionidae)
Pipevine Swallowtail
Battus philenor
Black Swallowtail
Papilio polyxenes
Giant Swallowtail
Papilio cresphontes
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Papilio glaucus
Spicebush Swallowtail
Papilio troilus
Palamedes Swallowtail
Papilio palamedes
Whites and Sulphurs (Pieridae)
Checkered White
Pontia protodice
Great Southern White
Ascia monuste
Falcate Orangetip
Paramidea midea
Orange Sulphur
Colias eurytheme
Southern Dogface
Colias cesonia
Cloudless Sulphur
Phoebis sennae
Large Orange Sulphur
Phoebis agarithe
Little Yellow
Eurema lisa
Sleepy Orange
Eurema nicippe
Dainty Sulphur
Nathalis iole
Gossamer-winged Butterflies
(Lycaenidae)
Juniper Hairstreak
Callophrys gryneus
White-M Hairstreak
Parrhasius melinus
Gray Hairstreak
Strymon melinus
Red-banded Hairstreak
Calycopis cecrops
Dusky-blue Groundstreak
Calycopis isobeon
Ceraunus Blue
Hemiargus ceraunus
Reakirt’s Blue
Hemiargus isola
Eastern Tailed-Blue
Everes comyntas
Brush-footed Butterflies (Nymphalidae)
American Snout
Libytheana carinenta
Gulf Fritillary
Agraulis vanillae
Julia Heliconian
Dryus julia
Zebra
Heliconius charitonius
Variegated Fritillary
Euptoieta claudia
Phaon Crescent
Phycoides phaon
Pearl Crescent
Phycoides tharos
Question Mark
Polygonia interrogationis
Mourning Cloak
Nymphalis antiopa
American Lady
Vanessa virginiensis
Painted Lady
Vanessa cardui
Red Admiral
Vanessa atalanta
Common Buckeye
Junonia coenia
Red-spotted Purple
Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Viceroy
Limenitis archippus
Goatweed Leafwing
Anaea andria
Hackberry Emperor
Asterocampa celtis
Funereal Duskywing, (Erynnis
funeralis).
Photograph by Garry Tucker/USFWS
Brush-footed Butterflies, Cont.
Tawny Emperor
Asterocampa clyton
Southern Pearly Eye
Enodia portlandia
Creole Pearly-eye
Enodia creola
Gemmed Satyr
Cyllopsis gemma
Carolina Satyr
Hermeuptychia sosybius
Little Wood-Satyr
Megisto cymela
Monarch
Danaus plexippus
Queen
Danaus gilippus
Skippers (Hesperiidae)
Silver-spotted Skipper
Epargyreus clarus
White-striped Longtail
Chiodes catillus
Long-tailed skipper
Urbanus proteus
Dorantes Longtail
Urbanus dorantes
Northern Cloudywing
Thorybes pylades
Horace’s Duskywing
Erynnis horatius
Funereal Duskywing
Erynnis funeralis
Wild Indigo Duskywing
Erynnis baptisiae
Common Checkered-Skipper
Pygrus communis
Tropical Checkered-Skipper
Pygrus oileus
Swarthy Skipper
Nastra lherminier
A Black Swallowtail Caterpillar,
(Papilio polyxenes).
Photograph by Garry Tucker/USFWS
Skippers, Cont.
Neamathla Skipper
Nastra neamathla
Clouded Skipper
Lerema accius
Least Skipper
Ancyloxypha numitor
Southern Skipperling
Copaeodes minimus
Fiery Skipper
Hylephila phyleus
Whirabout
Polites vibex
Southern Broken-Dash
Wallengrenia otho
Northern Broken-Dash
Wallengrenia egeremei
Little Glassywing
Pompeius verna
Sachem
Atalopedes campestris
Yehl Skipper
Poanes yehl
Broad-winged Skipper
Poanes viator
Dukes’ Skipper
Euphyes dukesi
Dun Skipper
Euphyes vestris
Lace-winged Roadside Skipper
Amblyscirtes aesculapius
Eufala Skipper
Lerodea eufala
Ocola Skipper
Panoquina ocola
For further information
Trinity River National Wildlife Refuge
P.O. Box 10015
Liberty, TX 77575
936/336-9786
77 species as of November 2010