Cabeza Prieta Natural History Association
Animals of the Sonoran Desert and Refuge

Animals

Mammals

• Sonoran Desert Mammals
  • Bats (only)

Birds

• Sonoran Desert Birds
  • Taxonomic List of Birds (Order > Family > Specie)
  • Search the Bird list with the Bird Identification Form
  • Key Word Search of the Bird List
• Christmas bird counts
• Great Backyard Bird Count
• Project Feederwatch

Reptiles

• Sonoran Desert Reptiles
  • Sort by Scientific Name
  • Sort by Common Name
  • Key Word Search of the Reptile List

Bugs

(Shortcuts: Spiders, Insects, Butterflies, Bees & Wasps)

• Phylum Arthropoda (arthropods)
  • Subphylum Chelicerata (animals with two major body subdivisions)
    • Class Arachnida (arachnids - animals with 8 legs)
      • Order Scorpiones (scorpions)
      • Order Uropygi (vinegaroons)
      • Order Araneae (true spiders)
      • Order Amblypygi (tailless whipscorpions)
      • Order Pseudoscorpiones (pseudoscorpions)
      • Order Solifugae (sun spiders)
      • Order Opiliones (daddy-long-legs)
  • Subphylum Uniramia (unbranched appendages)
    • Class Chilopoda (centipedes, etc.)
    • Class Diplopoda (millipedes, etc.)
    • Class Insecta (Insects - 6 legs)
      • Order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)
        • Family Hesperiidae - skippers (relatively small, fast-flying species)
        • Family Papilionidae - Swallowtail Butterflies
        • Family Pieridae - Yellow-White Butterflies
        • Family Lycaenidae - Gossamer-Winged Butterflies (Blues, Hairstreaks and Coppers)
        • Family Libytheidae - Snout Butterflies
        • Family Nymphalidae - Brush-Footed Butterflies
        • Family Resperifidae
        • Family Arctiinae - Erebid Moths
      • Order Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, hornets)
      • Order Diptera (flies)
        • Syrphidae (hover flies, drone flies, flower flies)

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