BC Conservation Data Centre: Species Summary
Chlosyne palla
Northern Checkerspot
| Scientific Name: | Chlosyne palla (Boisduval, 1852) | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name Synonyms: |
Charidryas palla
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| English Name: | Northern Checkerspot | ||||||||||
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| Scientific Name - Concept Reference: | Zhang, J., Q. Cong, J. Shen, L. Song, R. J. Gott, P. Boyer, C. S. Guppy, S. Kohler, G. Lamas, P. A. Opler, and N. V. Grishin. 2022. Taxonomic discoveries enabled by genomic analysis of butterflies. The Taxonomic Report of the International Lepidoptera Survey 10(7):1-60. | ||||||||||
| Classification Level: | Species | ||||||||||
| Taxonomy Comments: | SName changed from Charidryas palla to Chlosyne palla to align with NatureServe (Feb 22, 2005 - DW). | ||||||||||
| Species Group: | Invertebrate Animal | ||||||||||
| Species Code: | LE-CHLPAL | ||||||||||
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| Conservation Status / Legal Designation | |||||||||||
| Global Status: | G5 (Dec 2020) | ||||||||||
| Provincial Status: | S5 (Jan 2020) | ||||||||||
| BC List: | Yellow | ||||||||||
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| General Status Canada: | 6 - Not Assessed (2000) | ||||||||||
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| Migration Characteristics: (Global / Provincial) | |||||||||||
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Nonmigrant: Local Migrant: Distant Migrant: Within Borders Migrant: |
N / N / N / na / |
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| Global Habitat Comments: | With the foodplants in mountain clearings and valleys in Canada; sagebrush, oak woodland etc. southward. | ||||||||||
| Food Habits: |
Herbivore:Immature
Nectarivore: Adult |
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| Global Food Habits Comments: | Caterpillar Hosts: Goldenrod (Solidago), rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus), and asters. Adult Food: Flower nectar (Lotts and Naberhaus 2017). | ||||||||||
| Global Phenology: | |||||||||||
| Provincial Phenology: (1st half of month/ 2nd half of month) |
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| Colonial Breeder: | N | ||||||||||
| Length(cm)/width(cm)/Weight(g): | / / | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | |||||||||||
| Endemic: | N | ||||||||||
| Global Range Comment: | This intermountain species ranges from southern British Columbia and Alberta, Canada, south to southern California, and through the Rocky Mountains to Utah and Colorado, US (Lotts and Naberhaus 2019). The species is absent from most of the Great Basin except for the east slope of the Sierra Nevada and the mountains of central Utah (Scott 1986). It is unrecorded from basinland except the eastern Columbia Gorge of Washington (Pyle and LaBar 2019). | ||||||||||
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| Last Updated: | May 17, 2001 | ||||||||||
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| References and Related Literature | |||||||||||
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Please visit the website Conservation Status Ranks for definitions of the data fields used in this summary report.
Suggested Citation:
B.C. Conservation Data Centre. 2001. Species Summary: Chlosyne palla. B.C. Minist. of Environment. Available: https://a100.gov.bc.ca/pub/eswp/ (accessed Jun 3, 2026).