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Euphyes dukesi (Dukes' Skipper)

Synonyms: Atrytone dukesi

Wikipedia Abstract

Euphyes dukesi, or Dukes' skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It lives in the eastern United States and in a small portion of southern Ontario, Canada, in three distinct populations. Preferred habitats are shaded wetlands (woodland or coastal swamps, marshes, and ditches), with various species of sedge plants it uses as host plants for its larvae.
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Infraspecies

Euphyes dukesi calhouni
Euphyes dukesi dukesi

Attributes

Diet [1]  Herbivore
Hibernates [1]  Yes
Wing Span [2]  1.339 inches (.034 m)

Prey / Diet

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 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
♦ 4Jorrit 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