Sonoran Desert Butterflies and Moths - Euphydryas chalcedona (Chalcedona checkerspot)

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Sonoran Desert Butterflies and Moths
Euphydryas chalcedona (Chalcedona checkerspot)

No Photo available for Euphydryas chalcedona arthropod number 2012

(Chalcedona checkerspot)
Habitat: Rare resident of Organ Pipe CNM. Known from just one record, Arch Canyon. Perhaps more common formerly.

Phylum Arthropoda
Class Insecta
Order Lepidoptera
Family Nymphalidae - Brush-footed butterflies
Genus Euphydryas
species chalcedona

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Natural History of the Sonoran Desert and Refuge