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Chlosyne acastus (Sagebrush Checkerspot)

Synonyms: Melitaea acastus; Melitaea pearlae

Wikipedia Abstract

Sagebrush Checkerspot (Chlosyne acastus) is a member of the Nymphalidae family that is found in North America. They range from western United States east to Nebraska and to southern Alberta.
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Infraspecies

Chlosyne acastus acastus
Chlosyne acastus arkanyon
Chlosyne acastus dorothyi
Chlosyne acastus neumoegeni
Chlosyne acastus robusta
Chlosyne acastus sabina
Chlosyne acastus waucoba

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.496 inches (.038 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States

Prey / Diet

Acamptopappus sphaerocephalus (rayless goldenhead)[2]
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus (yellow rabbitbrush)[1]
Xylorhiza tortifolia (imberis woodyaster)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Neotoma cinerea (bushy-tailed woodrat)1

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0