Hesperia colorado

Western Branded Skipper
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Tribe: Hesperiini
Genus: Hesperia
Species: H. colorado
Binomial name
Hesperia colorado
(Scudder, 1874)
Subspecies

6 sspp., see text

Synonyms
  • Erynnis comma colorado Dyar, 1903
  • Hesperia comma colorado

The Western Branded Skipper (Hesperia colorado) is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family.

It is found from in Eurasia and north-western Africa, coast to coast in North America in boreal and subalpine areas south as far as Colorado, hence the Latin name.[1]

The wingspan is 22–30 mm. The flight period is from late June to mid-August in western North America and from late July to early September in eastern North America.[1]

The larvae feed on Muhlenbergia, Stipa, Andropogon, and Lolium.[1][2]

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Common Branded Skipper, Butterflies of Canada
  2. 1 2 Hesperia, funet.fi

External links

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