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Volume 24, Number 4
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SOME BUTTERFLIES OF MADISON COUNTY, ILLINOIS
In the years since I've been collecting butterflies I have made numerous trips to my inlaws' country home about IV2 miles west of the crossroads community of Prairie-town, Madison County, Illinois. This is about 30 miles northeast of downtown St. Louis, Missouri. When time, weather, and season allowed I have collected butterflies. Recently I was reading some old journals and the President's address by Munroe (1960, J. Lepid. Soc. 14: 1-4), along with some urgings from my wife, prompted me to write this record of my captures.
The area which was collected consists of about eight acres of mowed grass and about 14 acres of pasture land which was abandoned as such about five years ago and allowed to grow wild. There is a small pond in the mowed area around which the grass is allowed to grow to its natural height. Along the highway the grass was more or less of natural height also.
Slightly more than 950 specimens representing 56 species were captured on the 67 days that at least some collecting was done in the area. The majority of the collecting was done around the three holidays, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, and Labor Day. This by no means exhausts the different butterflies to be caught in this area for in 1969 alone I added six to my list. In addition there are nine other species I have caught in one year only.
The 56 species so far caught can normally be found in the area at one time or another according to Klots (1951, A field guide to the butterflies) and are listed below in the order of Dos Passos (1964, Synonymic list of the Neararctic Rhopalocera):
Amblyscirtes samoset ( Scudder)
A. vialis (Edwards)
Euphyes vestris (Boisduval)
Poanes zabulon (Boisduval & Le Conte)
Atalopedes campestris (Boisduval)
Pompeius verna (Edwards)
Wallengrenia otho (Smith)
Polites coras (Cramer)
P. themistocles ( Latreille)
P. origines (Fabricius)
Ancyloxypha numitor (Fabricius)
Pholisora catullus ( Fabricius)
Pyrgus communis (Grote)
Staphylus mazans (Reakirt)
Thorybes bathyllus (Smith)
T. pylades (Scudder)
T. confusis Bell
Achalarus lyciades ( Geyer)
Epargyreus clarus (Cramer)
Battus philenor (Linnaeus) Papilio polyxenes Fabricius P. cresphontes Cramer P. glaucus Linnaeus P. troilus Linnaeus
Pieris protodice Boisduval & Le Conte P. rapae ( Linnaeus) Colias eurytheme Boisduval C. philodice Godart
Phoebis sennae ( Linnaeus) Eurema lisa Boisduval & Le Conte
Strymon acadica (Edwards) S. edivardsii (Grote & Robinson) Lycaena thoe Guerin-Meneville L. xanthoides (Boisduval) L. phlaeas (Linnaeus) Everes comyntas (Godart) Celastrina argiolus ( Linnaeus)
Libytheana bachmanii ( Kirtland)
Asterocampa celtis (Boisduval & Le Conte)
A. clyton (Boisduval & Le Conte)
Limenitis astyanax ( Fabricius)
L. archippus (Cramer)
Vanessa atalanta (Linnaeus)
V. virginiensis ( Drury)
V. cardui (Linnaeus)
Junonia coenia (Hubner)
Polygonia interrogationis ( Fabricius)
P. comma ( Harris)
Phyciodes tharos ( Drury)
Melitaea nycteis Doubleday
Speyeria cybele (Fabricius)
Euptoieta claudia (Cramer)
Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus)
Lethe portlandia ( Fabricius) Euptychia cymela (Cramer) Cercyonis pegala ( Fabricius)
Carl R. Cushing, 2146 34th St., Los Alamos, New Mexico.