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| The butterfly species with
dates have been seen in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania this year. There
are records of 109 species for Lancaster County. The list below includes
all those seen in 2009 through 2012, a total of 88 species.
New species seen in 2012, but not in 2009 to 2011 are added in red.
Nine
species were added to the list in 2012.
NOTE:
Henry's Elfin (#58 below), is the first Lancaster County record ever. Found and
photographed by Tom Raub on April 8, 2012.
This is the second year
we are recording the first sighting for each month in order to have data
over the season.
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| Sightings in 2012
( 79 species) ---
In December 1 species.
Updated Jan 12, 2013.
Thanks to all of our contributors listed below. |
| Family HESPERIIDAE | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Last | |
| 1 | Silver-spotted Skipper | 8 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 7 | |
| 2 | Long-tailed Skipper | 31 | 22 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 | Southern Cloudywing | |||||||||
| 4 | Northern Cloudywing | |||||||||
| 5 | Dreamy Duskywing | 14 | ||||||||
| 6 | Sleepy Duskywing | 14 | ||||||||
| 7 | Juvenal's Duskywing | 3 | 5 | |||||||
| 8 | Horace's Duskywing | 13 | 26 | 4 | 11 | 12 | Sep12 | |||
| 9 | Wild Indigo Duskywing | 7 | 11 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct19 | |
| 10 | Common Checkered Skipper | 11 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 17 | 1 | Nov12 | ||
| 11 | Common Sootywing | 19 | 27 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| 12 | Swarthy Skipper | 28 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 13 | Clouded Skipper | 2 | ||||||||
| 14 | Least Skipper | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | Sep 5 | |||
| 15 | European Skipper | 13 | ||||||||
| 16 | Fiery Skipper | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Oct27 | ||||
| 17 | Leonard's Skipper | 21 | ||||||||
| 18 | Cobweb Skipper | 16 | ||||||||
| 19 | Indian Skipper | 28 | ||||||||
| 20 | Peck's Skipper | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 21 | Tawny-edged Skipper | 19 | 14 | 1 | ||||||
| 22 | Crossline Skipper | 10 | 1 | |||||||
| 23 | Long Dash | |||||||||
| 24 | Northern Broken Dash | 1 | ||||||||
| 25 | Little Glassy Wing | 1 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| 26 | Sachem | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oct27 | |||
| 27 | Delaware Skipper | 4 | ||||||||
| 28 | Mulberry Wing | 30 | ||||||||
| 29 | Hobomok Skipper | 13 | 2 | |||||||
| 30 | Zabulon Skipper | 5 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 31 | Broad-winged Skipper | 15 | ||||||||
| 32 | Black Dash | |||||||||
| 33 | Dun Skipper | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | |||||
| 34 | Dusted Skipper | 5 | ||||||||
| 35 | Ocola Skipper | 30 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Family PAPILIONIDAE | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Last | |
| 36 | Pipevine Swallowtail | 13 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| 37 | Zebra Swallowtail | 28 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 38 | Black Swallowtail | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 39 | Giant Swallowtail | |||||||||
| 40 | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | 3 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 19 | Oct 19 | |
| 41 | Spicebush Swallowtail | 7 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | Sep 8 | ||
| Family PIERIDAE | ||||||||||
| 42 | Cabbage Butterfly = Cabbage White Feb 28 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Nov11 |
| 43 | Falcate Orangetip | 30 | 7 | |||||||
| 44 | Clouded Sulphur | 7 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Oct 18 | |
| 45 | Orange Sulphur | 14 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Dec 4 |
| 46 | Cloudless Sulphur | 13 | 19 | 27 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 47 | Little Yellow | 17 | 20 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Oct 27 | |||
| 48 | Sleepy Orange | 24 | 12 | 1 | Sep23 | |||||
| 49 | Dainty Sulphur | |||||||||
| Family LYCAENIDAE | ||||||||||
| 50 | Harvester | |||||||||
| 51 | American Copper | 8 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| 52 | Bronze Copper | 14 | ||||||||
| 53 | Coral Hairstreak | 10 | ||||||||
| 54 | Banded Hairstreak | 25 | 1 | Jul 2 | ||||||
| 55 | Red-banded Hairstreak | 10 | 5 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Nov11 | |
| 56 | Juniper Hairstreak | 16 | 13 | 14 | ||||||
| 57 | Brown Elfin | 7 | ||||||||
| 58 | Henry's Elfin COUNTY RECORD Tom Raub | 8 | ||||||||
| 59 | Pine Elfin | 7 | ||||||||
| 60 | White-m Hairstreak | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1 | Oct 27 | ||||
| 61 | Gray Hairstreak | 22 | 31 | 17 | 1 | |||||
| 62 | Eastern Tailed Blue | 30 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 27 |
| 63 | Spring Azure | 23 | 3 | |||||||
| 64 | Summer Azure | 16 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Sep 8 | |||
| 65 | Appalachian Azure | |||||||||
| Family NYMPHALIDAE
Subfamily LIBYTHEINAE |
Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Last | |
| 66 | Snout Butterfly | 9 | 19 | 5 | 17 | |||||
| Subfamily HELICONIINAE | ||||||||||
| 67 | Variegated Fritillary | 8 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 27 | |
| 68 | Great Spangled Fritillary | 6 | 1 | 18 | 8 | Sep 8 | ||||
| 69 | Regal Fritillary | 3 | ||||||||
| 70 | Meadow Fritillary | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 27 | |
| 71 | Silvery Checkerspot | 13 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Sep 1 | |||
| Subfamily NYMPHALINAE | ||||||||||
| 72 | Pearl Crescent | 30 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct 27 |
| 73 | Baltimore | |||||||||
| 74 | Question Mark | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Oct27 | |
| 75 | Eastern Comma | 11 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Nov 22 |
| 76 | Mourning Cloak | 11 | 6 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 17 | 1 | Nov11 | |
| 77 | American Painted Lady | 8 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 78 | Painted Lady | 1 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | Oct 21 | ||
| 79 | Red Admiral | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Nov22 | |
| 80 | Buckeye | 30 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | Nov11 | |
| 81 | Red-spotted Purple | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 82 | Viceroy | 4 | 18 | 1 | Sep 6 | |||||
| Subfamily APATURINAE | ||||||||||
| 83 | Hackberry Butterfly | 26 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Sep16 | |||
| 84 | Tawny Emperor | 19 | 1 | 1 | Aug24 | |||||
| Subfamily SATYRINAE | ||||||||||
| 85 | Appalachian Eyed Brown | 26 | 26 | |||||||
| 86 | Little Wood Satyr | 12 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| 87 | Common Wood Nymph | 14 | 1 | 18 | 2 | |||||
| Subfamily DANAINAE | ||||||||||
| 88 | Monarch | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Nov11 | ||
| Monthly Totals | 10 | 34 | 41 | 49 | 56 | 53 | 50 | 29 | ||
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| Contributors to this year's sightings for Lancaster County are: Fred Habegger, Tom Raub, Jon Campbell, Ray Uhlig, Mike Slater, Denis Quinn, Al Spoo, and Karl Gardner. |
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