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