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Lincoln Park Zoo BioBlitz Guide

A guide of selected species found near and within Lincoln Park Zoo.

Common Green Darner 1
Anax junius
Water Scorpion 2
Nepa cinerea
Riffle Beetles 3
Elmidae
Caddisflies 4
Trichoptera
Mayflies 5
Ephemeroptera
Predaceous Diving Beetles 6
Dytiscidae
Blue Dasher 7
Pachydiplax longipennis
Eastern Amberwing 8
Perithemis tenera
Mites and Ticks 9
Acari
Water Mites 10
Hydrachnidia
Fishing Spiders 11
Dolomedes
Beetles
Coleoptera
Crawling Water Beetles 3
Haliplidae
Whirligig Beetle 12
Gyrinus convexiusculus
Predaceous Diving Beetles 6
Dytiscidae
Riffle Beetles 3
Elmidae
Water Penny Beetles
Psephenidae
Water Scavenger and Clown Beetles 3
Hydrophiloidea
Flies 13
Diptera
Mosquitoes and Midges 14
Culicomorpha
Mosquitoes and Midges 14
Culicomorpha
black fly
Simulium nigricoxum
Crane Flies 15
Tipulomorpha
Drone Fly 16
Eristalis tenax
Snipe Flies 17
Rhagionidae
Black Horsefly
Tabanus atratus
Mayflies 5
Ephemeroptera
Antlions, Lacewings and Allies 18
Neuroptera
Grasshoppers, Crickets, and Katydids
Orthoptera
Stoneflies 19
Plecoptera
Caddisflies 4
Trichoptera
Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths 20
Pyraloidea
Black Swallowtail 21
Papilio polyxenes
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail 22
Papilio glaucus
Fiery Skipper 23
Hylephila phyleus
Spotted Skipper
Melanopyge erythrosticta
Red-spotted Purple 24
Limenitis arthemis astyanax
Red Admiral 25
Vanessa atalanta
Painted Lady 26
Vanessa cardui
Question Mark 27
Polygonia interrogationis
Common Buckeye 28
Junonia coenia
Monarch 8
Danaus plexippus
American Snout 29
Libytheana carinenta
Spring Azure 30
Celastrina ladon
Orange Sulphur 15
Colias eurytheme
Clouded Sulphur 15
Colias philodice
Cabbage White 31
Pieris rapae
Ants, Bees, and Stinging Wasps
Aculeata
Bumble Bees 32
Bombus
Western Honey Bee 33
Apis mellifera
Hornets and Paper Wasps 34
Vespidae
Cicadas 35
Cicadoidea
Backswimmers 36
Notonectidae
Greater Water Boatman 37
Notonecta glauca
Water Scorpion 2
Nepa cinerea
Giant Water Bug 38
Lethocerus americanus
Water Treaders 39
Mesoveliidae
Dragonflies 40
Anisoptera
Pondhawks
Erythemis
Widow Skimmer 41
Libellula luctuosa
Twelve-spotted Skimmer 42
Libellula pulchella
Calico Pennant 43
Celithemis elisa
Halloween Pennant 22
Celithemis eponina
Variegated Meadowhawk 44
Sympetrum corruptum
White-faced Meadowhawk 1
Sympetrum obtrusum
Autumn Meadowhawk 1
Sympetrum vicinum
Wandering Glider 7
Pantala flavescens
Carolina Saddlebags 45
Tramea carolina
Black Saddlebags 7
Tramea lacerata
Dot-tailed Whiteface 46
Leucorrhinia intacta
Eastern Amberwing 8
Perithemis tenera
Common Whitetail 47
Plathemis lydia
Common Green Darner 1
Anax junius
Green-striped Darner 48
Aeshna verticalis
Swamp Darner 42
Epiaeschna heros
Prince Baskettail 49
Epitheca princeps
Damselflies 50
Zygoptera
Familiar Bluet 51
Enallagma civile
Citrine Forktail 52
Ischnura hastata
Fragile Forktail
Ischnura posita
Eastern Forktail 7
Ischnura verticalis
Ebony Jewelwing 53
Calopteryx maculata
Eastern Dobsonfly 54
Corydalus cornutus
Alderfly 55
Sialis lutaria
Crayfishes 56
Astacoidea
Amphipods 4
Amphipoda
Isopods 57
Isopoda
Copepods 58
Copepoda
Ostracods 59
Ostracoda
Daphnia 60
Water flea
Daphnia jollyi
Daphnia pulex 61

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