Butterflies of Ohio: A–Z Species Index

A comprehensive alphabetical reference to Ohio’s native, common, migratory, and occasional butterfly species — checked, corrected, and fully redone.

A

American Copper | Aphrodite Fritillary | Appalachian Brown | Arctic Skipper (rare migrant)

B

Baltimore Checkerspot | Banded Hairstreak | Black Swallowtail | Bronze Copper | Buckeye (Common Buckeye)

C

Cabbage White | Checkered White (occasional) | Clouded Sulphur | Cloudless Sulphur | Common Checkered‑Skipper | Common Wood‑Nymph | Coral Hairstreak | Crossline Skipper

D

Diana Fritillary (historic/very rare) | Dreamy Duskywing | Dun Skipper | Delaware Skipper | Dusted Skipper

E

Eastern Comma | Eastern Pine Elfin | Eastern Tailed‑Blue | Eastern Tiger Swallowtail | Eyed Brown | European Skipper (introduced)

F

Falcate Orangetip | Fiery Skipper | Frosted Elfin (rare, localized)

G

Giant Swallowtail | Great Spangled Fritillary | Gray Hairstreak | Great Purple Hairstreak (very rare stray)

H

Hackberry Emperor | Harvester | Hoary Edge | Horace’s Duskywing | Hickory Hairstreak (rare)

I

Indian Skipper

J

Juvenal’s Duskywing

L

Least Skipper | Leonard’s Skipper | Little Glassywing | Little Wood‑Satyr | Long‑tailed Skipper (occasional)

M

Meadow Fritillary | Milbert’s Tortoiseshell (rare) | Monarch | Mourning Cloak | Mulberry Wing (rare wetland skipper)

N

Northern Broken‑Dash | Northern Pearly‑Eye | Northern Metalmark (rare, localized)

O

Orange Sulphur | Olympia Marble (historic)

P

Painted Lady | Pearl Crescent | Peck’s Skipper | Pipevine Swallowtail | Purplish Copper (rare) | Pepper and Salt Skipper (rare)

Q

Question Mark

R

Red Admiral | Red‑spotted Purple | Regal Fritillary (historic/extremely rare) | Roadside Skipper (rare)

S

Sachem Skipper | Silver‑bordered Fritillary | Silver‑spotted Skipper | Silvery Checkerspot | Sleepy Duskywing | Sleepy Orange (occasional) | Snout Butterfly (American Snout) | Spicebush Swallowtail | Spring Azure | Striped Hairstreak | Swarthy Skipper

T

Tawny Emperor | Tawny‑edged Skipper | Tiger Swallowtail (Eastern Tiger Swallowtail) | Two‑spotted Skipper

V

Variegated Fritillary | Viceroy

W

White Admiral (hybrid form with Red‑spotted Purple) | White‑M Hairstreak | Wild Indigo Duskywing | West Virginia White (rare, spring ephemeral) | Wood Nymph (Common Wood‑Nymph)

Z

Zebra Swallowtail | Zabulon Skipper