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Euphyes vestris (Dun Skipper)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Euphyes vestris, the dun skipper, sedge witch or dun sedge skipper, is a species of butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in North America from Nova Scotia west across southern Canada to southern Alberta, south to Florida, the Gulf Coast and eastern Texas. There are disjunct populations in the High Plains and Rocky Mountains and along the Pacific Coast. The larvae feed on various sedges, including Cyperus esculentus and Carex heliophila.
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Infraspecies

Euphyes vestris harbisoni
Euphyes vestris vestris

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.984 inches (.025 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Cyrtonyx montezumae (Montezuma Quail)1
Euphyes dion (Dion Skipper)1
Poanes viator (Broad-winged Skipper)1

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Linnaea borealis (AMERICAN TWINFLOWER)[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.
♦ 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
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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