BUTTERFLIES OF THE SANTA MARGARITA ECOLOGICAL RESERVE

List provided by Dr. Gordon Pratt, University of California, Riverside

COMMON NAME	SCIENTIFIC NAME	FOOD PLANT
Acmon Blue	Icaricia acmon	Lotus species
Behr’s Metalmarks	Apodemia mormo virgulti
Buckeye	Precis coenia	Cordylanthus and other Scrophularaceae
Cabbage White	Pieris rapae	Brassacaceae
California Dogface **	Colias eurydice	Amorpha species
California Ringlet	Coenympha californica	Mellica species, and other grasses
California Sister	Adelpha bredowii	Quercus species
Harbison’s Dune Skipper *	Euphyes vestris	Carex spissa
Lorquin’s Admiral	Limenitis lorquini	Salix species
Umber Skipper	Paratrytone melane	Grasses
Western Tiger Swallowtail	Papilio rutulus	Salix, Populus, Plantanus species
Woodland Skipper	Ochlodes sylvanoides	Grasses

* = Potential species to be listed.
** = State butterfly