April Butterflies

KEY:
Abundant: Easily seen and often in large numbers
Common: Usually seen
Uncommon: Usually present in low numbers, but not always seen
Rare/Local: Not usually seen; may be known for only 1 or 2 locales
Very Rare: Known only from less than ten records

APRIL
Abundant:
Juvenal’s duskywing (Erynnis juvenalis)
eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus)

Common:
question mark (Polygonia interrogationis)
American lady (Vanessa virginiensis)
orange sulphur (Colias eurythme)
sleepy orange (Abaeis nicippe)
falcate orangetip (Anthocaris midea)
pearl crescent (phyciodes tharos)
eastern tailed-blue (Cupido comyntas)

Uncommon:
eastern comma (Polygonia comma)
mourning cloak (Nymphalis antiopa)
american snout (Libytheana carinenta)
zebra swallowtail (Eurytides marcellus)
juniper hairstreak (Mitoura gryneus)
Henry’s elfin (Callophrys henricii)
silver-spotted skipper (Epargyreus clarus)
spicebush swallowtail (Papilio troilus)
pipevine swallowtail (Battus philenor)
gemmed satyr (Cyllopsis gemma)
red-banded hairstreak (Calycopis cecrops)
zabulon skipper (Poanes zabulon)
red-spotted purple (Limenitis artemis astyanax)
Carolina satyr (Hermeuptychia sosybius)

Rare/Local:
cabbage white (Pieris rapae)
clouded sulphur (Colias philodice)
common checkered skipper (Pyrgus communis)
sleepy duskywing (Erynnis brizo)
black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes)
grey hairstreak (Strymon melinus)
Eastern pine elfin (Callophrys niphon)
variegated fritillary (Euptoieta claudia)
Horace’s duskywing (Erynnis horatius)
red admiral (Vanessa atalanta)
harvester (Feniseca tarquinius)
brown elfin (Callophrys augustinus)
cloudless sulphur (Phoebis sennae)
common roadside-skipper (Amblyscirtes vialis)
dusted skipper (Atrytonopsis hianna)
northern cloudywing (Thorybes pylades)
monarch (Danaus plexippus)

Very Rare:
checkered white (Pontia protodice)
wild indigo duskywing (Erynnis baptisiae)
summer azure (Celastrina neglecta)
spring azure (Celastrina ladon)
great purple hairstreak (Atlides halesus)
white-m hairstreak (Parrhasius m-album)
sachem (Atalopedes campestris)
clouded skipper (Lerema accius)
least skipper (Ancyloxypha numitor)
fiery skipper (Hylephila phyleus)
swarthy skipper (Nastra lherminier)
Pepper and salt skipper (Amblyscirtes hegon)
cobweb skipper (Hesperia metea)
Carolina roadside skipper (Amblyscirtes carolina)
lace-winged roadside skipper (Amblyscirtes aesculapias)
hoary edge (Achalarus lyciades)
southern cloudywing (Thorybes bathyllus)
hayhurst’s scallopwing (Staphylus hayhurstii)
common sootywing (Pholisora catullus)
mottled duskywing (Erynnis martialis)
palamedes swallowtail (Papilio palamedes)
viceroy (Limenitis archippus)
common buckeye (Junonia coenia)
silvery checkerspot (Chlosyne nycteis)
southern pearly-eye (Lethe creola)
creole pearly-eye (Lethe creola)