McHenry County Audubon Society

Butterflies of the Chicagoland Area

Membership Brochure
Calendar
Newsletter
Christmas & Spring Counts
Injured Wildlife
Links
Checklists
McHenry County Birds
Wildlife Resources
Photo Gallery

A Checklist of the Butterflies of the Chicagoland Area

Checklist of the Butterflies of the Chicago Region by Habitat

(The number in parentheses is the quality ratings index.  Add up all the species’ quality numbers, and   

 divide by the number of species.  The lower the number, the greater the habitat quality.)

 

Forest

Prairie

Disturbed Areas

             (Urban, Farms, Lawns)

_____Wild Indigo Duskywing  (3)

_____Byssus Skipper  (2) 

_____Dun Skipper  (4)

_____ Pipevine Swallowtail  (3)

_____Two-spotted Skipper  (2)

_____Sachem  (5)

_____Giant Swallowtail  (4)

_____Delaware Skipper  (3)

_____Peck’s Skipper  (8)

_____Tiger Swallowtail  (7)

_____Tawny-edged Skipper  (6)

_____Tawny-edged Skipper  (6)

_____Zebra Swallowtail

_____Crossline Skipper  (6)

_____Fiery Skipper  (5)

_____Spicebush Swallowtail

_____Ottoe Skipper  (1)

_____European Skipper  (8)

_____Mustard White

_____Leonard’s Skipper  (2)

_____Least Sipper  (7)

_____Hickory Hairstreak

_____Poweshiek Skipper  (1)

_____Common Sootywing  (6)

_____Harvester  (4)

_____Checkered Skipper  (6)

_____Checkered Skipper  (6)

_____Snout Butterfly  (4)

_____Southern Cloudywing  (4)

_____Southern Cloudywing  (4)

_____Hackberry Butterfly  (4)

_____Black Swallowtail  (6)

_____Northern Cloudywing (4)

_____Tawny Emperor  (3)

_____Checkered White  (7)

_____Silver-spotted Skipper  (7)

_____Red Admiral  (6)

_____Dog Face  (1)

_____Black Swallowtail  (6)

_____Compton Tortoise Shell  (3)

_____Cloudless Sulfur

_____Checkered White  (7) 

_____Mourning Cloak  (7)

_____Sleepy Orange

_____Cabbage White  (9)

_____Question Mark  (7)

_____Olympia Marble  (2)

_____Orange Sulfur(Alfalfa Butterfly)  (8)

_____Comma  (5)

_____Coral Hairstreak  (3)

_____Clouded Sulfur  (8)

_____Gray Comma  (4)

_____Great Copper  (1)

_____Little Sulfur  (4)

_____Pearly Eye  (3)

_____Purplish Copper  (3)

_____Dainty Sulfur

_____Little Wood Satyr  (5)

_____Reakirt’s Blue  (2)

_____Gray Hairstreak  (6)

    

_____American Painted Lady  (5)

_____American Copper  (5)

Savanna

_____Silvery Checkerspot  (4)

_____Eastern Tailed Blue  (8)

_____Hobomok Skipper  (5)

_____Gorgone Checkerspot  (2)

_____Red Admiral  (6)

_____Broken Dash  (4)

_____Silver-bordered Checkerspot  (2)

_____Painted Lady  (7)

_____Leonard’s Skipper  (2)

_____Meadow Fritillary  (3)

_____Buckeye  (5)

_____Dreamy Duskywing  (2)

_____Regal Fritillary  (2)

_____Pearl Crescent  (6)

_____Sleepy Duskywing  (4)

_____Great Spangled Fritillary  (3)

_____Variegated Fritillary  (4)

_____Wild Indigo Duskywing  (4) 

_____Aphrodite  (2)

_____Monarch  (6)

_____Horace’s Duskywing  (3)

_____Common Wood Nymph  (4)

 

_____Juvenal’s Duskywing  (4)

   

Forest Edge/Shrubs

_____Hoary Edge  (3)

Wetlands (Open Areas)

_____Pepper and Salt Skipper  (3)

_____Pipevine Swallowtail  (3)

_____Dion Skipper  (3)

_____Dun Skipper  (4)

_____Dog Face  (1)

_____Black Dash  (3)

_____Zabulon Skipper  (3)

_____Cloudless Sulfur

_____Mulberry Wing  (2)

_____Little Glassy Wing  (3)

_____Sleepy Orange

_____Broad-banded Skipper  (2)

_____Broken Dash  (4)

_____Olympian Marble  (2)

_____Long Dash  (2)

_____Fiery Skipper  (5)

_____Striped Hairstreak  (5)

_____Least Skipper  (7)

_____Mottled Duskywing  (2)      

_____Banded Hairstreak  (5)

_____Swamp Metalmark  (1)

_____Northern Cloudywing  (4)

_____Edward’s Hairstreak  (2)

_____Acadian Hairstreak  (2)

_____Hoary Edge  (3)

_____Silvery Blue  (2)

_____Bronze Copper  (5)  

_____Silver-spotted Skipper  (7)

_____American Painted Lady  (5)

_____Gray Copper  (1)

_____Coral Hairstreak  (3)

_____Great Spangled Fritillary  (3)

_____Purplish Copper  (3)

_____Striped Hairstreak  (5)

_____Little Wood Satyr  (5)

_____Viceroy  (5)

_____Acadian Hairstreak  (2)

_____Common Wood Nymph  (4)

_____Milbert’s Tortoiseshell  (4)

_____Spring Azure  (8)

   

_____Silvery Checkerspot  (4)

_____Red-spotted Purple  (7)

Sand Dunes (Fore Dunes)

_____Harris’ Checkerspot  (1)

_____Viceroy  (5)

_____Hoary Elfin  (1)

_____Baltimore Checkerspot  (2)

_____Milbert’s Tortoiseshell  (4)

 

_____Silver-bordered Fritillary  (2)

_____Mourning Cloak  (7)

 

_____Meadow Fritillary  (3)

_____Harris Checkerspot  (1)

 

_____Aphrodite  (2)

_____Appalachian Eyed Brown  (2)

 

_____Northern Eyed Brown  (2)

 

 

                         This Information is courtesy of the McHenry County Conservation District.

"Environmental Awarness Through Birding"

McHenry County Audubon is a chapter of the Illinois Audubon Society. www.illinoisaudubon.org