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Hylephila phylaeus (fiery skipper)

Synonyms:

Infraspecies

Hylephila phylaeus anca
Hylephila phylaeus andina
Hylephila phylaeus basistrigata
Hylephila phylaeus monticola
Hylephila phylaeus phylaeus
Hylephila phylaeus taxus

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.063 inches (.027 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Carlsbad Caverns National Park II 15448 New Mexico, United States

Prey / Diet

Consumers

Pollinator of 
Aster novaeangliae <Unverified Name>[3]
Bidens laevis (bur-marigold)[3]
Boltonia asteroides (white doll's daisy)[3]
Polytaenia nuttallii (Nuttall's prairie parsley)[2]
Pontederia cordata (Pickerel Weed)[2]

External References

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.
♦ 3Robertson, C. Flowers and insects lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty three flowers. 1929. The Science Press Printing Company Lancaster, PA.
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