Subject: Re: Identify these, PLEASE

From: James Shea <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 95 00:10:41 -0500

Re: Identify These, Please
 
Perhaps you can use this information in your search for butterfly
identities on your stamps.
1. Blue Flasher (aka Flashing Astrapes) is Astrapes fulgerator.
   Family: Hesperiidae -- Skippers
   Subfamily: Pyrginae -- Pyrgine Skippers
The next four butterflies are all from the Family Lycaenidae -- Gossamer Wings.
The Subfamily is Lycaeninae -- Coppers.
2. Tailed Copper (aka Arota Copper) is Tharsalea arota.
3. Lustrous Copper is Lycaena cuprea
4. Ruddy Copper is Chalceria rubida
5. Blue Copper is Chalceria ferrisi.
The final four are all Family Nymphalidae -- Brushfoots.
This large family is divided into many Subfamilies and Tribes.
6. California Sister is Adelpha bredowii californica
   Subfamily: Limenitidinae.
7. Blue Wave (aka Blue Wing) is Myscelia ethusa.
   Subfamily: same
8. Viceroy is Basilarchia archippus
   Subfamily: same
9. Buckeye is Junonia coenia
   Subfamily: Nymphalinae.
Here in the San Francisco Bay Region, we have the Tailed Copper, Ruddy
Copper, Buckeye and the California Sister. My source for the others
is:
Miller, J.Y.,ed. 1992. Common Names of North American Butterlies.
Washington & London: The Smithsonian Institution Press.
A book on butterflies of the world may help you track down some
of your unfamiliar (to me) Latin-named species.
     Marilyn Shea