Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Ancyloxypha > Ancyloxypha numitor

Ancyloxypha numitor (Least Skipper)

Synonyms:

Wikipedia Abstract

Ancyloxypha numitor, the least skipper, is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. They have a weak, Satyrinae-like flight.
View Wikipedia Record: Ancyloxypha numitor

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.827 inches (.021 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Leersia oryzoides (rice cutgrass)[1]

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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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