BirdingInSpain

100 butterflies

The Birding In Spain butterfly list of 2014

 Common name

1. Swallowtail
2. Scarce Swallowtail
3. Spanish Festoon
4. Apollo*
5. Black-veined White
6. Large White
7. Small White
8. Green-veined White
9. Bath White
10. Orange-tip
11. Moroccan Orange Tip
12. Clouded Yellow
13. Berger’s Clouded Yellow
14. Brimstone
15. Cleopatra
16. Wood White
17. Provence Hairstreak
18. Green Hairstreak
19. Sloe Hairstreak
20. False Ilex Hairstreak
21. Ilex Hairstreak
22. Blue Spot Hairstreak
23. Small Copper
24. Scarce Copper*
25. Long-tailed Blue
26. Lang’s Short-tailed Blue
27. Holly Blue
28. Little Blue
29. Osiris Blue
30. Green-underside Blue
31. Black-eyed Blue
32. Panoptes Blue
33. Silver-studded Blue
34. Brown Argus
35. Mother-of-Pearl Blue
36. Chalk-hill Blue
37. Adonis Blue
38. Common Blue
39. Duke of Burgundy Fritillary
40. Nettle-tree Butterfly
41. Monarch
42. Plain Tiger*
43. Southern White Admiral
44. Camberwell Beauty
45. Peacock Butterfly
46. Small Tortoiseshell
47. Large Tortoiseshell
48. Red Admiral
49. Painted Lady
50. Queen of Spain Fritillary
51. Comma Butterfly
52. Cardinal Fritillary
53. Silver-washed Fritillary
54. High Brown Fritillary
55. Dark Green Fritillary
56. Twin-spot Fritillary
57. Marbled Fritillary
58. Glanville Fritillary
59. Knapweed Fritillary
60. Spotted Fritillary
61. Meadow Fritillary
62. Provençal Fritillary*
63. Heath Fritillary
64. Marsh Fritillary
65. Spanish Fritillary
66. Marbled White
67. Iberian Marbled White
68. Esper’s Marbled White
69. Western Marbled White
70. Spanish Marbled White
71. Grayling
72. Tree Grayling*
73. Striped Grayling*
74. Black Satyr
75. Great Banded Grayling
76. False Grayling*
77. Piedmont Ringlet
78. Autumn Ringlet*
79. Meadow Brown
80. Dusky Meadow Brown*
81. Gatekeeper
82. Southern Gatekeeper
83. Spanish Gatekeeper
84. Small Heath
85. Dusky Heath
86. Pearly Heath
87. Chestnut Heath
88. Speckled Wood
89. Wall Brown
90. Large Wall Brown
91. Grizzled Skipper
92. Oberthür’s Grizzled Skipper
93. Safflower Skipper
94. Red Underwing Skipper
95. Marbled Skipper
96. Mallow Skipper
97. Dingy Skipper
98. Large Skipper
99. Small Skipper
100. Silver-spotted Skipper*

* Denotes a butterfly seen in 2014 but not with clients present.

Bearing in mind that it’s not always a given thing to get birders to look at butterflies we consider that there are some interesting insects on this list.

The targets for 2015 are to fill in a few of the gaps, especially as far as the later species are concerned. It would also be great to gain some more confidence with some of those challenging “blues”.