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Atrytone arogos (Arogos Skipper)

Synonyms: Atrytone arogos iowa; Hesperia arogos; Hesperia iowa; Hesperia mutius

Wikipedia Abstract

Atrytone arogos, the arogos skipper or beard-grass skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in the United States in isolated colonies in Georgia peninsular Florida, the Gulf Coast, south-east North Dakota and central Minnesota south to southern Texas and the Colorado Front Range. Strays are found up to western Virginia, northern Arkansas and Illinois. The wingspan is 29-37 mm. There is one generation with adults on wing from June to July in the north and west. In the south there are two generations with adults on wing from April to September.
View Wikipedia Record: Atrytone arogos

Endangered Species

Status: Endangered
View IUCN Record: Atrytone arogos

Prey / Diet

Andropogon gerardi (big bluestem)[1]
Schizachyrium scoparium (little bluestem)[1]

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Jorrit 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