Taxonomic Listing for state of Michigan - Listed Lepidoptera

Arrangement using Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico
edited by Ronald W. Hodges, 1983

placed under category of 
Endangered (Federal &/or Michigan DNR-MNFI)
Threatened (Federal &/or Michigan DNR-MNFI)
Special Concern (Michigan Natural Features Inventory)
Seldom Encountered (Michigan Lepidoptera Survey)
includes infrequently seen, sampled, or photographed and/or includes aberrant, form, etc.;
this category was devised by Owen A. Perkins and the tagged specimen data is filed in his computer database.
Hypothetical (Mogens C. "Mo" Nielsen list of species that have been vouchered in neighboring states 
or in Ontario, Canada, that he believes may be a resident, migrant, stray, accidental in Michigan)

[note: All specimens which are Endangered, Threatened and Special Concern should have a Michigan Lepidoptera Survey bar-code tag and the data should be entered in the MI Lep Survey (Primary) data base.   Any person or collection manager having such specimens which as yet do not have a bar-code tag should contact Mogen C. “Mo” Nielsen or Robert D. Kriegel and/or Owen A. Perkins (lepalert@comcast.net) to obtain assistance in procuring tags for these specimens. 

In addition Owen A. Perkins is attempting to have a Michigan Lepidoptera Survey bar-code tag 
for all Seldom Encountered specimens and ultimately for all Lepidoptera specimens and the data should be entered 
in the MI Lep Survey (Secondary) data base.  Any person or collection manager having such specimens 
which as yet do not have a bar-code tag should contact Owen A. Perkins (mailto:(lepalert@comcast.net) 
to obtain assistance in procuring tags for these specimens.] [last updated 30 March 2007] 

Hodges # Endangered Species [Federal and/or Michigan]: 
 4375 d. Lycaeides melissa samuelis Nabokov, 1944 [Federal endangered, MI threatened]
 4452    Speyeria idalia (Drury, 1773)
 4577    Neonympha mitchellii French, 1889 [Federal and MI endangered]
 8844    Catocala amestris Strecker, 1874 
11095    Schinia indiana (Smith, 1908) 
11174    Schinia lucens (Morrison, 1875)

Hodges # Threatened Species [Federal and/or Michigan]: 
 3961    Erynnis persius (Scudder, 1863)
 4006    Oarisma powesheik (Parker, 1870) [aka Oarisma poweshiek]
 4022    Hesperia ottoe W. H. Edwards, 1866
 4074    Euphyes dukesi (Lindsey, 1923)
 4080    Atrytonopsis hianna (Scudder, 1868)
 4157    Battus philenor (Linneaus, 1771) [downgraded from Threatened 1994, removed 1998]
 4325    Incisalia irus (Godart, 1824)
 4374 l. Lycaeides idas nabokovi Masters, 1974
 4375 d. Lycaeides melissa samuelis Nabokov, 1944 [Federal endangered, MI threatened]
 9498    Papaipema silphii Bird, 1915

Hodges # Special Concern Species [Michigan]:
 3959    Erynnis baptisiae (Forbes, 1936)
 3962 b. Pyrgus centaureae wyandot (W. H. Edwards, 1863)
 4200    Euchloe ausonides (Lucas, 1852)
 4326    Incisalia henrici (Grote & Robinson, 1867)
 4332    Fixsenia favonius ontario (W. H. Edwards, 1868)
 4349    Erora laetus (W. H. Edwards, 1862) [aka Erora laeta]
 4391    Calephelis mutica McAlpine, 1937 
 4427    Polygonia gracilis (Grote & Robinson, 1867)
 4466 a. Boloria frigga saga  (Staudinger, 1861)
 4471    Boloria freija (Thunberg, 1791)
 4482    Phyciodes batesii (Reakirt, 1865)
 4489 a. Chlosyne gorgone carlota (Reakirt, 1866)
 4596    Erebia discoidalis (Kirby, 1837)
 4605    Oeneis macounii (W. H. Edwards, 1885)
 7685    Heteropacha rileyana Harvey, 1874
 7704 a. Eacles imperialis pini Michener, 1950
 7730    Hemileuca maia (Drury, 1773)
 7768    Hyalophora columbia (S. I. Smith, 1865) [removed from list, 1998]
 7877    Proserpinus flavofasciata (Walker, 1856)
 7985    Heterocampa subrotata Harvey, 1874
 8254    Pygarctia spraguei (Grote, 1875)
 8780    Catocala robinsoni Grote, 1872
 8840    Catocala illecta Walker, 1858
 8871    Catocala dulciola Grote, 1881
 9214    Acronicta falcula (Grote, 1877)
 9277    Merolonche dolli Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
 9428    Meropleon ambifusca (Newman, 1948)
 9435    Spartiniphaga inops (Grote, 1881)
 9464    Papaipema cerina (Grote, 1874)
 9482    Papaipema speciosissima (Grote & Robinson, 1868)
 9500    Papaipema maritima Bird, 1909
 9504    Papaipema aweme (Lyman, 1908)
 9506    Papaipema sciata Bird, 1908
 9508    Papaipema beeriana Bird, 1923
 9781    Basilodes pepita Guenee, 1852
 9992    Pachypolia atricornis Grote, 1874
10011    Brachionycha borealis (J. B. Smith, 1899)
10123    Oncocnemis piffardi (Walker, 1862)
10716    Euxoa aurulenta (J. B. Smith, 1888)

Hodges # Seldom Encountered Species [Michigan]:
 3886    Urbanus proteus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 3952    Erynnis horatius (Scudder  & Burgess, 1870)
 3957    Erynnis funeralis (Scudder & Burgess, 1870)
 3958    Erynnis lucilius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870)
 3993    Nastra lherminier (Latreille, 1824)
 4013    Hylephila phyleus (Drury, 1773)
 4049    Atalopedes campestris (Boisduval, 1852)
 4060    Poanes zabulon (Boisduval & Leconte, 1834)
 4111    Lerodea eufala (W. H. Edwards, 1869)
 4115    Calpodes ethlius (Stoll, 1742)
 4119    Panoquina ocola (W. H. Edwards, 1863) [Vouchered in 2005 by Roger Kuhlman]
[Vouchered in 2005 by Roger Kuhlman]
 4157    Battus philenor (Linneaus, 1771) [down-graded from Threatened, 1994]
 4186 b. Papilio machaon hudsonianus A. H. Clark, 1932
 4184    Eurytides marcellus (Cramer, 1777)
 4193    Pontia protodice (Boisduval & Leconte, 1829)
 4194    Pontia occidentalis (Reakirt, 1866)
 4198    Ascia monuste (Linnaeus, 1764)
 4224    Zerene cesonia (Stoll, 1790) [aka Colias cesonia]
 4228 a. Phoebis sennae eubule (Linnaeus, 1767) 
 4229    Phoebis philea (Johansson, 1763)
 4242    Eurema nicippe (Cramer, 1780)
 4246    Eurema mexicanum (Boisduval, 1836)
 4299    Calycopis cecrops (Fabricius, 1793)
 4335    Parrhasius m-album (Boisduval & Leconte, 1833)
 4360    Hemiargus isola (Reakirt, 1866)
 4362    Everes amyntula (Boisduval, 1852)
 4376 c. Plebejus saepiolus amica (W. H. Edwards, 1863)
 4410    Libytheana carinenta bachmani (Kirtland, 1851)
 4413    Agraulis vanillae (Linnaeus, 1758) 
 4422    Polygonia satyrus (W. H. Edwards, 1869)
 4431    Nymphalis californica (Boisduval, 1852)
 4463 c. Boloria eunomia dawsoni (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916)
 4464 f. Boloria selene atrocostalis (Huard, 1927)
 4554    Anaea andria Scudder, 1875
 4568.2  Enodia creola (Skinner, 1897)
 4611    Oeneis jutta ascerta Masters & Sorenson, 1968
 4615    Danaus gilippus berenice (Cramer, 1776)
 7768    Hyalophora columbia (S. I. Smith, 1865) [removed from Special Concern list, 1998]

Hodges # Hypothetical Species [Michigan]: 
This list appeared in the Newsletter of the Michigan Entomological Society:
Volume 50, Number 1, February 2005.     
 3932    Staphylus hayhurstii (W. H. Edwards, 1870)  
 4007    Oarisma garita (Reakirt, 1866)
 4052    Problema byssus (W. H. Edwards, 1880)
 4119    Panoquina ocola (W. H. Edwards, 1863) [Vouchered in 2005 by Roger Kuhlman]
 4207    Anthocharis midea (Hubner, 1809)
 4253    Lycaena xanthoides dione (Scudder, 1868)
 4318    Mitoura gryneus (Hubner, 1819) [aka grynea]
 4357    Leptotes marina (Reakirt, 1868) 
 4387    Calephelis borealis (Grote and Robinson, 1866)
 4474    Boloria titania grandis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1916)
 4593    Erebia mancinus Doubleday and Hewitson, 1849

Supplement MLS_Species22Apr05

In March 1992 the NEWSLETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY published a Preliminary Checklist of Michigan Butterflies and Skippers by Mogens C. Nielsen. 157 species were listed plus 3 additional subspecies. In addition a Hypothetical List was included and contained 20 species.  

In 1999 the Michigan State University Extension published a book entitled MICHIGAN BUTTERFLIES & SKIPPERS by Mogens C. Nielsen. This publication listed 159 species including the 3 additional subspecies. The two additional species (to the 157 in the Newsletter of March 1992) were Agraulis vanillae (which was on the 1992 Hypothetical List) and Fixsenia favonius ontario (had not been on the 1992 Hypothetical List).  

Since the publication of the 1999 Nielsen book, 3 additional species of the 1992 Hypothetical List species have been documented in Michigan: Erynnis funereal, Calpodes ethlius, and Ascia monuste phileta. These are denoted by one asterisk ( * ).   

In March 2005 the NEWSLETTER of the MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY published an article by Mogens C. Nielsen entitled: Potentially New Michigan Butterflies and Skippers, 11 species are listed. These are denoted by two asterisks ( ** ).

The 5 denoted with three asterisks ( *** ) are those from the 1992 Hypotetical List of 20 that have not been added subsequently to the present list of 162 Michigan species or were not listed in the 2005 list of 11 Potentially New Michigan Butterflies and Skippers.

It should be noted that the species listed as Celastrina ladon (Cramer, 1780) in the Check List of the Lepidoptera of America North of Mexico edited by RONALD W. HODGES and others, 1983 as #4363 may be as many as 4 separate species: Nielsen in his book lists them as three:

            Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon)
            Summer Azure (Celastrina neglecta)
            Northern Spring Azure (Celastrina lucia)

And MLS members (especially “Ted” Herig) are researching what Dr. David M. Wright and Harry Pavulan are investigating as another species of this complex:

            Spring Azure, Wild Cherry Gall Feeder [now named: Celastrina serotina.]

AND in 2005 Roger Kuhlman captured a pair of Ocola Skippers (Panoquina ocola], a new state of Michigan record. This species is also denoted by one asterisk ( * ).

This brings the total of Michigan butterfly and skipper species to 
163 including the 3 definitive subspecies. [last updated 30 March 2007] 

Butterflies and Skippers of Michigan, a list compiled by Owen A. Perkins, [last updated 30 March 2007] 
and as they are designated in the museum collection of the compiler: