Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Erynnis > Erynnis baptisiae

Erynnis baptisiae (Wild Indigo Duskywing)

Synonyms: Thanaos baptisiae

Wikipedia Abstract

Erynnis baptisiae, the wild indigo duskywing, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America from southern New England and southern Ontario west to central Nebraska, south to Georgia, the Gulf Coast, and south-central Texas. The species is rapidly expanding its range and abundance by colonizing plantings of crown vetch along roadways and railroad beds. Erynnis lucilius, Erynnis baptisiae and Erynnis persius belong to the "Persius species complex", a confusing group of very similar species.
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Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.22 inches (.031 m)

Prey / Diet

Astragalus canadensis (Canadian milk-vetch)[2]
Baptisia tinctoria (horseflyweed)[1]
Crotalaria sagittalis (arrowhead rattlebox)[2]

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