Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Euphyes > Euphyes bimacula

Euphyes bimacula (Two-spotted Skipper)

Synonyms: Atrytone contradicta; Hesperia acanootus; Hesperia bimacula; Hesperia illinois

Wikipedia Abstract

Euphyes bimacula, the two-spotted skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in North America, from northeast Colorado and western Nebraska; eastern Nebraska east to southern Quebec; southern Maine south to central Virginia; coastal plain south to Georgia; and the Gulf Coast. The wingspan is 25–30 mm. They are dark brown on the upperside and pale tawny orange beneath. The larvae feed on Carex trichocarpa.
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Infraspecies

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.063 inches (.027 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Carex sempervirens[2]
Carex trichocarpa (hairyfruit sedge)[3]

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.
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