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erroneous east of the Divide], 5
September; good "fall" flight in
Douglas and Jeffferson counties,
including south Platte Canyon,
5,600 ft, 20 October, almost LATE
(both RES). Hesperia uncas,
south of Reiradon Hill at KTVS
transmitter tower, 4,400 ft, 9
roadmiles east-southeast of
Sterling, LOGAN County, 10 June
(RES); hills along State Road 131,
6,800 ft, 2 miles northwest of
McCoy, ROUTT County, 20 June
(RES). Hesperia comma
colorado, Horseshoe Mountain,
12,500 ft, 10 miles west of Fairplay,
Park County, 8 July, VERY EARLY
(previously 23 July) (ADW).
Hesperia comma near harpalus
[same phenotype as Pine Bluffs,
Wyoming], worn female on
marigolds near courthouse,
Julesburg, 3,500 ft, LOW,
SEDGWICK County, NORTHEAST,
9 September (RES). H. leonardus
pawnee, Clear Creek Canyon,
7,100 ft, CLEAR CREEK County,
WEST, 25 September; State Road
181 (old US 85), 5,920 ft, at Exit
67 of 1-25, on rabbitbrush,
HUERFANO County, 16
September; 1-25 at Huerfano River,
5,950 ft, near famous Huerfano
Butte [El Huerfano means The
Orphan, for which the county was
named], also HUERFANO County
but SOUTH, 16 September; careful
searches 27, 28,29,30 August
failed to turn it up in the
Walsenburg area, Otero, Crowley,
Bent, Prowers, Las Animas or Baca
counties, so it seems that the
southernmost populations in
Colorado are now known (all RES).
Hesperia pahash, hill southeast
of US 350,4,800 ft, 10.6 roadmiles
northeast of Delhi, OTERO
County, 5 June; hill east of State
Road 109,4,800 ft, 6 miles west of
Ninaview, BENT County, 6 June;
hills west of US 385,3,900 ft, LOW.
15 miles north of Burlington, KIT
CARSON County, 10 June; US 160
near Moon Valley Campground,
8,400 ft, MINERAL County, 23 July
(all RES); fresh female on dogbane,
Mugrage Campground, 7,050 ft,
Sheephorn Creek, GRAND County,
28 June (ADW). H. viridis, Piney
Creek, 6,000 ft, ARAPAHOE
County, 27 June; gulch 5.6 miles
east of Flagler, 4,880 ft, KIT
CARSON County, 9 June; same as
Hesperia uncas except gully to
north, 4,300 ft, LOGAN County,
NORTHEAST, 10 June; gulch west
of US 385,3,950 ft, 4 miles north
of Bonny Reservoir State
Recreation Area, YUMA County,
NORTHEAST, 10 June (all RES).
H. nevada, same data as Hesperia
uncas except on knoll, ROUTT
County (RES). Atalopedes
campestris, better than average
first generation flight in Denver1
foothill area, June to early July;
Lamar, 3,650 ft, Prowers County, 6
November, LATE (previously 3
November)(all RES). Polites
sabuleti, Coal Creek at State Road
7, 5,090 ft, BOULDER1 Adamsf
Weld counties, one female taken
on rabbitbrush, 26 September
(RES); flats near Big Dry Creek,
5,230 ft, between Wadsworth
Boulevard, Boulder Turnpike, and
Church Ranch Road, JEFFERSON
County, 27 September (RES).
Polites themistocles, Hobrook
Creek, San Isabel National Forest,
ALAMOSA County, 8 August 1977
(R.E. Howard, BYU, det RES 1994);
Akron, 4,650 ft, WASHINGTON
County, 8 July (RES). I sonora,
same data as Hesperia pahaska,
Grand County, 28 June, EARLY
(previously 5 July)(RES, ADW).
Anatrytone logan, 4 miles east of
Flagler, 4,800 ft, KIT CARSON
County, 8 July (MSF); nectaring on
roadside thistle, US 385,3,700 ft,
14 miles south of Lamar,
PROWERS County, first record
from lower Arkansas Valley in
Colorado, 23 June 1977 (JBV).
Ochlodes sylvanoides, same data
as Epargyreus clam, HINSDALE
County (RES). 0. yuma, female
voucher [with permit], Dinosaur
National Park, 6,000 ft, Moffat
County, 17 June, EARLY and first
evidence of probable bivoltinism in
any Colorado population (TSD).
Paratrytone snowi, Oak Creek,
San Isabel National Forest,
FREMONT County, 8 August 1977
(R.E. Howard, BYU, det RES 1994);
Lory State Park [with permit], Well
Gulch, 5,600 ft, Larimer County,
25 June, EARLY (previously 28
June)(RES, ADW). Poanes
hobomok (typical, not P. h.
wetona), Wray, 3,650 ft, YUMA
County, SOUTH, in shaded
tallgrass riparian setting, 10 June
(RES); see Wyoming. Poanes
taxiles, Muir Springs Park, 4,315
ft, 3 miles west-northwest of Fort
Morgan, MORGAN County, EAST/
NORTHEAST, first prairie record
east of the urban corridor in
Colorado [but it occurs way
eastward in Nebraska], 6 July
(RES); tributary of Bishop Creek,
7,400 ft, 2.7 roadmiles north of
Egnar, SAN MIGUEL County, 24
July (RES). Euphyes vestris, same
data as Ancycloxypha numitor,
KIT CARSON County; same data
as Pimna pirus, RI0 BLANCO
County (both RES). Euphyes
bimacula, same data as
Anatrytone logan, KIT CARSON
County, SOUTWSOUTHEAST
(MSF); seems to be expanding its
range in Colorado. Atrytonopsis
hianna, nearly absent in 1994.
"Amblyscirtes" simius, studied
intensively and flew well in 1994;
hill 2 miles south of State Road 10,
6,200 ft, 13 miles east-northeast of
Walsenburg, HUERFANO County, 5
June; same data as Hesperia
~ahaska, OTEROIBENT County,
EAST; hill 6,050 ft, Hoehne Road,
1.5 miles east of 1-25, LAS ANIMAS
County, SOUTH, 6 June (all RES).
Amblyscirtes oslari, gulch
northwest of Rouse Road, 6,550 ft,
1.1 miles west of 1-25, HUERFANO
County, 6 June (RES); same data
as Hesperia viridis, KIT CARSON
County (RES). Amblyscirtes
aenus, fresh dwarf male, same data
as Amblyscirtes oslari, but 5 June,
HUERFANO County (RES).
Amblyscirtes eos, same data as
Polites rhesus, Baca County, 20
April, VERY EARLY (previously 5
May)(RES); Peaceful Valley Boy
Scouts of America Ranch, 7,000 ft,
ELBERT County, 4 May (RES);
Clear Creek Canyon, 6,000 ft, 1
mile west of Golden, JEFFERSON
County, NORTHNORTHWEST,
first Denver region record, 2 July
1993, one worn male taken (WDP);
south Rush Creek, 5,320 ft, 3.5
miles north of Punkin Center,
LINCOLN County, NORTHEAST, 8
May (RES). Amblyscirtes phylace,
JFK Golf Course, below Cherry
Creek Dam, 5,460 ft, LOW,
DENVER County [a"political"
county record, as the city
expands], 25 May (RES).
Megathymus sp., very rare in
1994, probably high parasitism.
Parnassius phoebus, Simpson
Mesa, 6,220 ft, WELD County,
NORTHEAST, 28 June 1984 (UNC,
det RES 1994). Papilio polyxenes,
same data as Hesperia pahaska,
BENT County; several seen in
PHILLIPS County, June to
September, confirming previous
second-hand records (all RES).
Papilio machaon bairdii, black
form, female, Chatfield Reservoir,
5,426 ft, DOUGLAS County, 1 July
1961 (DEB; MSF, JAS, RES agree
with det); same data as Anatrytone
logan, KIT CARSON County,
EAST, rare on prairies (MSF);
yellow female, Cherry Creek State
Park [with permit], ARAPAHOE
County, 20 July (ADW). Papilio
indra, very rare again. I glaucus,
US 24 at Big Sandy Creek, 5,340 ft,
3 miles west of Limon, ELBERT
County, 14 May (RES). P. rutulus,
Creek at Iron Springs, 4,800 ft,
LOW, south of U.S. 350, OTERO
County, EAST1 SOUTHEAST, 6
June (RES). I multicaudatus,
Davis Springs Campground, upper
end Green Mountain Reservoir,
8,000 ft, SUMMIT County, 28 June
(RES, ADW). Heraclides
cresphontes, Greeley, 4,655 ft,
WELD County, 14 June 1985
(UNC, det RES 1994). Neophasia
menapia, same data as
Epargyreus clams, HINSDALE
County (RES). Pontia beckerii,
same local as Hesperia pahaska,
but 16 August, BENT County,
EAST; hills east of State Road 207,
4,300 ft, LOW, 1.6 miles north of
Manzanola, CROWLEY County, 6
June; Radium, 6,940 ft, GRAND
County, 20 June; south portion of
Fort Carson, "white shale" habitat
where Brown told me it should
occur, 5,800 ft, EL PAS0 County,
NORTHEAST, 4 June (all RES);
this record and the three cited
above raise El Paso County to 199
butterfly species, and I solicit help
in obtaining the 200th in Brownie's
memory-Nymphalis
californica-which can surely be
found as adults in May or as
gregarious larvae on Ceanothus
fendleri in the foothills in June.
Pontia sisymbrii, hills west of
fairgrounds, 5,100 ft [now
destroyed for housing], LOW,
ADAMS County, NORTHEAST, 2
May (RES). Pontia protodice
"vernalis", same former habitat,
Adams County, 16 February, VERY
EARLY (previously 26
February)(RES). P. occidentalis,
Forest Road 535 beyond west
Dolores Campground, 8,000 ft, 10
roadmiles northeast of the junction
with State Road 145, DOLORES
County, 24 July; Raton Pass, 8,800
ft, LAS ANIMAS County, SOUTH, 5
June; same spot as Pontia
protodice, 2 March, VERY EARLY
(previously 22 March)(all RES).
Euchloe olympia, common on
many hilltops, Baca, BENT,
CROWLEY, OTERO counties,
4,300-4,925 ft, 19 to 21 April; US
385,4,325 ft, 8.5 miles north of
Cheyenne Wells, CHEYENNE
County [also Kit Carson, Logan,
Phillips, Sedgwick, Adams,
Arapaho, Lincoln, Washington,
Elbert, and El Paso counties], 11-
14 May; Crystola Creek, 8,000 ft,
HIGH, TELLER County, 16 May
(all RES). Colias alexandra, hill,
4,960 ft, 5.6 miles east of Flagler,
KIT CARSON County, EAST, 14
May; South Fork Cat Creek, Forest
Road 271,9,000 ft, RIO GRANDE
County, 23 July (both RES).
Zerene cesonia, hill, 4,600 ft, Road
13 south of Road G, upper Sand
Canyon, Baca County, 20 April,
VERY EARLY (previously 30
April)(RES). Anteos clorinde,
Piney Creek, 6,000 ft, ARAPAHOE
County, my first USA capture [a
chipped male, following several
stormy days with huge south
winds], 25 May, VERY EARLY
(previously 15 July!)(RES).
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