ABOUT BOM SPECIES LIST BUTTERFLY HISTORY PIONEER LEPIDOPTERISTS METHODS
The Butterflies of Massachusetts
Common and Widespread Species
The species listed below are common to abundant in Massachusetts (Table 5), and found in virtually all areas of the state. In lieu of species accounts, relative abundance charts-- MBC Sightings per Total Trip Reports, 1992-2009 --are posted here.
9 Cabbage White Pieris rapae (Linneaus, 1758) 10 Clouded Sulphur Colias philodice Godart, 1819
11 Orange Sulphur Colias eurytheme Boisduval, 1852 35 Eastern Tailed-Blue Cupido comyntas (Godart, [1824])
36 Spring Azure Celastrina ladon (Cramer, 1780); Cherry Gall Azure C. serotina Pavulaan & Wright 2005; Summer Azure C. neglecta (W.H. Edwards, 1862)
47 Pearl Crescent Phyciodes tharos (Drury, 1773) 55 American Lady Vanessa virginiensis (Drury, 1773)
57 Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus, 1758) 66 Little Wood-Satyr Megisto cymela (Cramer, 1777)
67 Common Ringlet Coenonympha tullia ( Müller, 1764) 68 Common Wood-Nymph Cercyonis pegala (Fabricius, 1775)
69 Monarch Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758) 87 European Skipper Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer), 1808
© Sharon Stichter 2010, 2011
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ABOUT BOM SPECIES LIST BUTTERFLY HISTORY PIONEER LEPIDOPTERISTS METHODS