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Last Updated:December 17, 2002
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| COMMON NAME | LATIN NAME |
| admiral, red | VANESSA ATALANTA |
| azure, spring | CELASTRINA LADON |
| azure, summer | CELASTRINA LADON |
| blue, tailed, eastern | EVERES COMYNTAS |
| brown, appalachian | SATYRODES APPALACHIA |
| buckeye, common | JUNONIA COENIA |
| checkerspot, silvery | |
| comma, eastern | |
| crescent, pearl | PHYCIODES THAROS |
| duskywing, horace's | |
| duskywing, juvenal's | |
| duskywing, wildindigo | |
| emperor, hackberry | |
| fritillary, great spangled | |
| fritillary, meadow | BOLORIA BELLONA |
| fritillary, variegated | |
| glassywing, little | |
| hairstreak, gray | |
| hairstreak, red-banded | CALYCOPIS CECROPS |
| lady, painted | VANESSA CARDUI |
| monarch | DANAUS PLEXIPPUS |
| mourning cloak | NYMPHALIS A. ANTIOPA |
| purple, red-spotted | |
| queen | |
| question mark | POLYGONIA INTERROGATIONIS |
| satyr, little wood | |
| scallopwing, hayhurst's | |
| skipper, broadwinged | |
| skipper, common checkered | |
| skipper, crossline | |
| skipper, dun | |
| skipper, fiery | |
| skipper, least | ANCYLOXPHA NUMITOR |
| skipper, ocola | |
| skipper, peck's | |
| skipper, sachem | |
| skipper, silver-spotted | EPARGYEUS CLARUS |
| skipper, zabulon | POANES ZABULON |
| sooty-wing, common | PHOLISORA CATULLUS |
| sulphur, clouded | COLIAS PHILODICE |
| sulphur, cloudless | |
| sulphur, orange | |
| swallowtail, black | PAPILIO POLYXENES |
| swallowtail, spicebush | PAPILIO TROILUS |
| swallowtail, tiger, eastern | PAPILIO GLAUCUS |
| swallowtail, zebra | |
| viceroy | LIMENITIS ARCHIPPUS |
| white, cabbage | PIERIS RAPAE |
| white, checkered | |
| wood nymph, common | CERCYONIS P. PEGALA |
National Capital Parks-East Homepage
Last Updated:December 17, 2002
http://www.nps.gov/nace/butterflies.htm