Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Atalopedes > Atalopedes campestris

Atalopedes campestris (Field skipper; Sachem skipper)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Atalopedes campestris (called the sachem in the United States) is a small skipper butterfly. It is just over 1 inch (2.5 cm) long and has orange-and-brown adults. Females are slightly larger and have paler markings on their wings compared to males.
View Wikipedia Record: Atalopedes campestris

Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.024 inches (.026 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Badlands National Park II 178535 South Dakota, United States
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Microtus ochrogaster (prairie vole)1
Sylvilagus audubonii (Desert Cottontail)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.
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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