Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Calpodes > Calpodes ethlius

Calpodes ethlius (larger canna leafroller; Brazilian Skipper)

Synonyms: Eudamus olynthus; Hesperia chemnis; Papilio ethlius

Wikipedia Abstract

Calpodes ethlius, the Brazilian skipper, larger canna leafroller or canna skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in the United States from southern Florida and southern Texas, south through the West Indies, Mexico, and Central America to Argentina. Strays and temporary colonies can be found north to southern Nevada, northern Texas, Illinois and Massachusetts. Adults feed on Lantana in Arizona. In Costa Rica, adults have been recorded feeding on the nectar from large white or pale yellow flowers of woody lianas, trees and shrubs.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.811 inches (.046 m)

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lixophaga diatraeae[2]

External References

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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.
3HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
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