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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Grass Skippers (Hesperiinae) » Hesperiini » Hylephila » Fiery Skipper - Hodges#4013 (Hylephila phyleus)

Species Hylephila phyleus - Fiery Skipper - Hodges#4013

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea)

The Lepidoptera of Florida: An Annotated Checklist.

By Charles P. Kimball
Florida Dept. of Ag. Gainesville, FL. v + 363 pp., 1965

Kimball, C.P. 1965. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas, Vol. 1: Lepidoptera of Florida. Florida Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, FL. v + 363 pp.

This book is still available for just $5.00 !!!

Since updated by John. B. Heppner:

Heppner, J.B. 2003. Lepidoptera of Florida. Part 1. Introduction and Catalog. Arthropods of Florida and Neighboring Land Areas, Vol. 17. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry, Gainesville, FL. x + 670 pp.

Book Review - Metzler, 2006

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Contributed by Mike Quinn on 30 August, 2008 - 4:26pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea)

Butterflies of the North Olympic Peninsula

By Kristi Murray Knowles

This is a useful pocket guide to the Butterflies of this region, with pen-and-ink drawings, from egg to larva, to chrysalis, to adult butterfly.
With a foreword by Robert Michael Pyle.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 17 August, 2007 - 6:46pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea)

Butterflies of the Rocky Mountain States

By Clifford D. Ferris and F. Martin Brown (eds)
University of Oklahoma Press, 1981

Since this book is probably out of print, and the amazon link below doesn't work, see here: Ferris & Brown .

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 1 May, 2007 - 2:02pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea)

The Butterflies of Southern California

By Thomas C. Emmel and John F. Emmel
Natural History Museum of Southern California, 1973

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 7 March, 2007 - 10:18am

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An Introduction to Southern California Butterflies

By Fred Heath

This book covers 89 species of Southern California. Excellent photos (by Herbert Clarke) with ID guidelines, help in field identification. The author has also included helpful information about preferred habitat, food plants, seasonality, and types of overwintering forms.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 25 February, 2007 - 9:38pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea)

Butterflies and their Favorite Flowering Plants - Anza-Borrego Desert State Park & Environs

By Lynn & Gene Monroe

A useful field guide to Butterflies of the Anza Borrego Desert in Southern California. The book is well illustrated with photos of 134 species and subspecies, larval food plants, nectar plants, as well as photos of some immature stages.

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Contributed by Hartmut Wisch on 25 February, 2007 - 6:35pm

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A Field Guide to Western Butterflies 2nd Edition

By Paul A. Opler, illustrated by Amy Bartlett Wright
Houghton Mifflin, 1999

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Contributed by David Moll on 3 January, 2007 - 3:01pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea)

Butterflies of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

By Roland H. Wauer
Johnson Books, 2004

This book does not have the best quality photos, but is very useful for its natural history information, especially for the large number of Mexican species which occur in the US only as very rare strays and so do not get covered in the butterfly field guides with broader geographic coverage like Kaufman, Glassberg, etc.

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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 6 June, 2006 - 10:11am

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