Butterflies of Point Reyes (All Known)
From the NPS PORE website list.
Golden Hairstreak
Habrodais grunus, the Golden Hairstreak, is a butterfly in the Lycaenidae family. It is found in southern Arizona, Oregon and California. The habitat consists of oak woodland, canyons and mountain ridges.
Bramble Hairstreak
The Coastal Green Hairstreak, Bramble Green Hairstreak, or Bluish Green Hairstreak (Callophrys dumetorum) is butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in coastal California and rarely in inland California. Subspecies oregonensis is known as the Oregon Green Hairstreak.
Brown Elfin
The Brown Elfin (Callophrys augustinus) is butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in from Newfoundland north and west through the northern United States and the prairie provinces to Alaska. To the south it ranges in Appalachian Mountains to northern Georgia and northern Subspecies iroides is known as the Western Elfin.
Western Pine Elfin
The Western Pine Elfin (Callophrys eryphron) is a North American butterfly that ranges from British Columbia east to Maine and south to southern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Males are brown and females are orange-brown, with both having bold patterned hind wings. The top of the wings have dark bars with a lighter chevron shaped margin. The body is 19–32 mm in ...more ↓
Great Purple Hairstreak
The Great Purple Hairstreak (Atlides halesus), also called the great blue hairstreak, is a common North American butterfly. The larvae (Caterpillars) feed on mistletoe (Phoradendron) species.
Gray Hairstreak
The Gray Hairstreak (Strymon melinus), is one of the most common hairstreaks in North America, ranging over nearly the entire continent.
Spring Azure Blue
The Spring Azure (Celastrina ladon) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in North America from Alaska and Canada south of the tundra through most of the United States except the Texas coast, southern plain and peninsular Florida; south in the mountains to Colombia.
Greenish Blue
The Greenish Blue (Aricia saepiolus) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found from northwestern United States to southern Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Acmon Blue
The Acmon Blue (Plebejus acmon) is a North American butterfly. It ranges mainly in California but can be seen north to Oregon and south through Baja California. The tops of the wings are blue with dark edges in males and brown in females. Its underside is white with black spots for both sexes with a red-orange band on the hindwing. Adults feed on nectar while caterpillars can ...more ↓
Western Tailed-blue
The Western Tailed-blue (Cupido amyntula) is a member of the Lycaenidae family and is seen across western North America as far norther as Alaska. The upperside of the male butterfly is blue while the female has a darker brown band on the outer side of the wing. The underside is riddle with black spots, with a wingspan of 2.2 to 2.9 cm. The larvae feed on Thermopsis, ...more ↓
