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Arkansas Butterflies
The list is linked to my current dot maps of the Arkansas butterfly ranges. Click on the names below for the maps. (See the Arkansas Checklist for more detailed seasonal and occurrence information). Baseline was established with the USGS survey maps with those records (usually confirmed and sometimes historical specimen collections) in BLUE. The rest of the color codes are otherwise as below. All other colors are visual records. These are updated as I receive the information from my field sources.
Records with a central blue dot are prior USGS records that have then been confirmed by our more recent sightings. I am interested in receiving any rare or unusual sightings for further confirmation. I must have an identifiable digital photo to include the record except from my normal sight sources. The county map below is updated as well after several sightings but should be close to UTD. We are working in 2017 to survey some of the lower monitored counties.
There are 162 species mapped and currently 29 species are purely vagrants at this point (marked parenthetically below). This now includes the Regal Frit which would be vagrant in the NW sections but has bred there in the past. Prairie landscapes vanishing have removed it northward into Missouri. Vagrants likely are not habitat dependent. More prevailing winds and whimsy. And boom years in their native regions likely release more into the late summer world. 13 species in this group have been seen since this website started in 2004. The rest have no "modern" records. And 9 species have only been seen in one county prior to 2004 and may not be seen again in my lifetime in our state. Of the other 133 species I would classify 88 of them as "statewide". Meaning that every county with the right habitat should have these as a record. As I write this only 9 counties have even 88 species documented. And we have yet to have a butterfly that has been recorded in every county. The closest species being Pearl Crescent, Orange Sulphur, Common Buckeye, Goatweed Leafwing and Silver-spotted Skipper. The other 45 species are the maps that likely will mean the most in the end. They will never be documented for all or even half the counties. In some cases the maps are likely essentially complete. There may be no more Appalachian Brown colonies for instance. Possibly a few more Northern Metalmark colonies. Any sightings of these are significant. As well as Dusky Azure, Edward's and Kings Hairstreaks. Quite a few of these require photos for documentation.
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Family: Hesperiidae
Silver-spotted Skipper Meske’s Skipper Long-tailed Skipper Peck’s Skipper Golden Banded-Skipper Tawny-edged Skipper Southern Cloudywing (Whirlabout) Northern Cloudywing Southern Broken-Dash Confused Cloudywing Northern Broken-Dash (Outis Skipper) Little Glassywing (Sickle-winged Skipper) Arogos Skipper Horace’s Duskywing Delaware Skipper Sleepy Duskywing Byssus Skipper Dreamy Duskywing Hobomok Skipper Mottled Duskywing Zabulon Skipper Juvenal’s Duskywing Yehl Skipper (Zarucco Duskywing) Broad-winged Skipper (Persius Duskywing) Dion Skipper Funereal Duskywing Dukes’ Skipper Wild Indigo Duskywing Dun Skipper Common Checkered-Skipper Dusted Skipper (Tropical Checkered-Skipper) Pepper and Salt Skipper (Desert Checkered-Skipper) Linda’s Roadside-Skipper (Northern White-Skipper) Lace-winged Roadside-Skipper Common Sootywing Carolina Roadside-Skipper Swarthy Skipper (Nysa Roadside-Skipper) Clouded Skipper Common Roadside-Skipper Least Skipper Bell’s Roadside-Skipper (Orange Skipperling) Dusky Roadside-Skipper Southern Skipperling Eufala Skipper Fiery Skipper Brazilian Skipper Leonard’s Skipper Ocola Skipper Cobweb Skipper Yucca Giant-Skipper Family: Papilionidae
Pipevine Swallowtail Giant Swallowtail (Polydamas Swallowtail) Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Zebra Swallowtail Spicebush Swallowtail Black Swallowtail (Palamedes Swallowtail) Family: Pieridae
(Florida White) Cloudless Sulphur Checkered White Mexican Yellow Cabbage White (Orange-barred Sulphur) (Great Southern White) (Large Orange Sulphur) Olympia Marble (Barred Yellow) Falcate Orangetip Little Yellow Family: Lycaenidae
American Copper Oak Hairstreak Bronze Copper White M Hairstreak Great Purple Hairstreak Gray Hairstreak Coral Hairstreak (Western Pygmy-Blue) Edward’s Hairstreak (Cassius Blue) Banded Hairstreak (Marine Blue) Hickory Hairstreak Reakirt’s Blue King’s Hairstreak Eastern Tailed-Blue Striped Hairstreak Spring Azure Red-banded Hairstreak Summer Azure Juniper Hairstreak Appalachian Azure
Family: Riodinidae
Swamp Metalmark Northern Metalmark Family: Nymphalidae
(Julia) Gray Comma(Zebra) Mourning CloakVariegated Fritillary (Milbert’s Tortoiseshell) Great Spangled Fritillary American Lady (Regal Fritillary) Red Admiral Gorgone Checkerspot Common Buckeye Silvery Checkerspot (Common Mestra) Phaon Crescent Red-spotted Admiral Family: Apaturidae
Goatweed Leafwing Tawny Emperor
Family: Satyridae
Southern Pearly-eye Carolina Satyr Northern Pearly-eye Helicta/Georgia Satyr Creole Pearly-eye Little Wood-Satyr Appalachian Brown Common Wood-Nymph Family: Danaidae
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