Observation date: July 12, 2022
Date notes: Full sun, 85+°, 4.4 mi W of NV State Hwy 140 on Alta Creek Rd at a seep at 5400’. Pine Forest Mts, Humboldt County, NV. Appears to be an isolated colony. I saw them for the first time at this location in the summer of 2020.
Submitted by: mariposero
Specimen type: Photograph
Observation notes: I could find no other records of S. cybele sightings in Humboldt County, NV on this website, iNaturalist, (except my own) or in George Austin’s 1985 Nevada counties list of reported species published by the Lepidopterist Soc.
Status: Resident
Verified by: Ken Davenport
Verified date: October 10, 2022
Coordinator notes: You sent this to the right person, I keep the records for the Southwestern region -Season Summaries and butterfly distributions and this is indeed a Humboldt COUNTY record for Nevada. However I do need to have your actual name for you to get credit for your discovery. Contact me at my email address at kdavenport93306@yahoo.com-Ken Davenport By the way. Leto is now a species and not a cybele subspecies, just revealed in a new 70 page scientific paper based on genomic work. So since BAMONA does not know, still a cybele here.
