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BUTTERFLIES OF COZUMEL
Field Guide of Cozumel butterflies- over 85 species on this small island!
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Swallowtails- large butterflies with only one common here
Blues- small butterflies usually close to ground, often nectaring.
Brushfoots to p 115 less common Brushfoots
Brushfoots to p 134- more of the less common Brushfoots except for Cozumel's Common Morpho
Brushfoots to p 145- Satyrs (one is common) plus Queens and migratory Monarchs?
Grass Skippers: several are common, mostly found nectaring in vacant weedy lots such as found at El Cedral
Metalmarks- easy to find, hard to identify
Spreadwing skippers p. 200-204
Spreadwing skippers to p 199, some common
Whites and Yellows- easy to find nectaring at flowers and blossoms
Brushfoots to p 96 Many species, large and small, easy to find nectaring.
Swallowtails
Hairstreaks- less common and often sedentary and overlooked. I suspect vthere are several more Harstreaks on Cozumel.
Spreadwing Skippers to p 182
BUTTERFLIES OF COZUMEL
Spreadwing Skippers to p 182
SPREAD-WING SKIPPERS
White-striped Longtail, Choides catillus p. 158
Emerald Aguna p.158-
Gold-spotted Aguna p.158
Brown Longtail, Urbanus procne p. 171 LRGV
Two-barred Flasher, Astraptes fulgerator p. 162 from LRGV
Dorantes Longtail, Urbanus dorantes p. 172 from QR
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