Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Erynnis > Erynnis zarucco

Erynnis zarucco (Zarucco Duskywing)

Synonyms: Antigonus diogenes; Nisoniades naevius; Nisoniades ovidius; Nisoniades terentius; Thanaos zarucco

Wikipedia Abstract

Erynnis zarucco, the zarucco duskywing, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found (rarely) from southern Ontario to the southeastern United States. The wingspan is 32–38 mm. There are three generations in the deep south but only two in the north. The larvae feed on tree and herbaceous Fabaceae.
View Wikipedia Record: Erynnis zarucco

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.378 inches (.035 m)

Prey / Diet

Coronilla lassenii (Christmas Bells)[2]
Robinia pseudoacacia (Post locust)[2]
Sesbania herbacea (hemp sesbania)[2]
Sesbania vesicaria (Bladder Pod)[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.
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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