Colorado butterflies and moths from the year 1974
Gothic area (Gunnison County) Colorado butterfly collection
Tom Peterson

In 1974, I had the good fortune of spending the summer at the
Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in the old ghost town of Gothic, in
Gunnison County, Colorado, where I made a small butterfly collection.
Photos of the upperside and underside of each specimen are presented in the
following HTML pages with the capture data.

Specimens are from 7700 feet elevation up to 13500 feet.  Location, elevation,
and date of capture of each specimen were recorded on a label pinned under
the specimen.  That information is transcribed here.
Many specimens were not labeled with an identification, so a few identifications
have been added based on the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American
Butterflies (1981).  I am not an expert on Colorado butterflies, so some
identifications may be wrong, and a few are labeled with a (?).
Since photos may not be displayed to any particular scale, a representative size
is shown for at least one specimen in each upperside photo.

In June, 2001, this collection was donated to RMBL, so the specimens now
reside there.

I welcome e-mail from interested people, however, due to extreme amounts of spam,
I cannot read mail at schmetterlinge@earthlink.net.  Instead, please go to my
Butterflies of Fermilab website and send e-mail to the address given there.