Butterfly List

Fanjeaux Garden Butterflies

L = Lifer, a species seen for the first time

1. Speckled Wood - end March 2020
2. Red Admiral - April
3. Small Heath - May
4. Fritillary (ID narrowed down to one of three)
5. Adonis Blue
6. Scarce Swallowtail - 25 May
7. Spanish Gatekeeper - June
8. Meadow Brown
9. Marbled White
10. Great Banded Grayling
11. Large White
12. Skipper (probably Small)
13. Wall Brown
14. Geranium Bronze (L)
15. Grizzled Skipper - July
16. Cleopatra - 24 July (L)
17. Common Blue - 25 July
18. Gatekeeper - 25 July
19. Southern Gatekeeper - 25 July 2020 (L)
20. Knapweed Fritillary - May 2021
21. Small Tortoiseshell - May 2021
22. Green-underside Blue - June 2021
23. Glanville Fritillary - Aug 2021
24. Painted Lady - May 2022
25. Brown Argus - July 2022
26. Lulworth Skipper - July 2022
27. Lang's Short-tailed Blue - Sept 2022
28. Provence Chalkhill Blue (or Chalkhill Blue) (f) - Sept 2022
29. Dingy Skipper - Apr 2023
30. Black-veined White - May 23
31. Green Hairstreak - May 23
32. Western Dappled White - May 23 (L)
33. Small Copper - June 23
34. Essex Skipper - June 23
35. Long Tailed Blue - July & Sept 23
36. Baton Blue (f) - Aug 23
37. Holly Blue (m) - Aug 23


Daytime Moths

1. Latticed Heath
2. Hummingbird Hawkmoth
3. Red Underwing
4. Five-spot Burnet
5. Mother Shipton
6. Broad Bordered Bee Hawkmoth - June 23
7. Jersey Tiger Moth - Aug 23


Butterflies seen out and about during walks and outings in the Occitanie region since we moved here Nov 2019:

1. Wall Brown
2. Small White (or Southern Small White)
3. Cleopatra (L)
4. Speckled Wood
5. Red Admiral
6. Small Tortoiseshell
7. Brimstone
8. Clouded Yellow
9. Painted Lady
10. Swallowtail
11. Small Copper
12. Small Heath
13. Adonis Blue
14. Small Skipper (I think)
15. (Grizzled?) Skipper - there are many that look like the Grizzled Skipper, so no clue which actual species without a photo! (L)
16. Spanish Gatekeeper
17. Large White
18. Marbled White
19. Great Banded Grayling
20. Scarce Swallowtail
21. Spotted Fritillary
22. Silver Washed Fritillary
23. Queen of Spain Fritillary
24. Large Skipper
25. Wood White
26. Dingy Skipper
27. Common Blue
28. Grayling

2021

29. Baton Blue (L) (Apr 21, Garrigue at La Palme, also Font Picou walk, Fanjeaux, May)
30. Black-eyed Blue (L) (Apr 21, Mont Carriere, Villasavary)
31. Green-underside Blue (L) (Apr 21, Mont Carriere, Villasavary)
32. Holly Blue (Mont Carriere) 
33. Green Hairstreak (Font Picou, May 21)
34. Provence Orange-Tip (L) (at 700m in Montagne Noir, May 2021)
35. Knapweed Fritillary (Lezignan airfield, May 2021)
36. Provence Chalkhill Blue (Feuilla, May 2021) 
37. Dusky Heath (L) (Leucate headland, June 2021)
38. Two-tailed Pasha (L) (Leucate headland, June 2021)
39. Western Marbled White (L) (Leucate headland, June 2021) - I am sure I have seen this species before but didn't have photo proof until now. 

2023

40. Southern Festoon (L) (Upper Aude Valley, May 2023)
41. Spanish Festoon (L) (Corbieres, May 2023) - only saw it flying off!
42. Clouded Apollo (L) (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
43. Small Blue (L) (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
44. Mazarine Blue (L) (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
45. Western Dappled White (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
46. Red Underwing Skipper (L) (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
47. Purple-edged Copper (L) (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
48. Pearl Bordered Fritillary (Vallee du Galbe, June 23)
49. Chalkhill Blue (L) (Vallee du Galbe, Aug 23)


Daytime Moths

1. Zygaena lavandulae - near coast
2. Chimney Sweeper - (at 700m in Montagne Noir, May 2021 and Vallee du Galbe, June 2023)
3. Five-spot Burnet