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Hesperia comma (Silver-spotted Skipper)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Hesperia comma, the silver-spotted skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is also known as the common branded skipper or Holarctic grass skipper in North America, where the butterfly Epargyreus clarus, a spread-winged skipper, also has the common name of "silver-spotted skipper".
View Wikipedia Record: Hesperia comma

Infraspecies

Hesperia comma assiniboia
Hesperia comma benuncas
Hesperia comma borealis
Hesperia comma catena
Hesperia comma colorado
Hesperia comma comma
Hesperia comma dimila
Hesperia comma dorina
Hesperia comma florinda
Hesperia comma hulbirti
Hesperia comma laurentina
Hesperia comma manitoba
Hesperia comma oblata
Hesperia comma oregonia
Hesperia comma sachalinensis
Hesperia comma shandura

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.024 inches (.026 m)

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Elymus repens (quackgrass)[2]
Festuca calligera (sheep fescue)[2]
Holcus lanatus (common velvetgrass)[2]

Prey / Diet Overlap

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
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