Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Megathymus > Megathymus ursus

Megathymus ursus (Viola’s ursine yucca giant-skipper)

Infraspecies

Megathymus ursus deserti
Megathymus ursus ursus
Megathymus ursus violae

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

Yucca baccata (Spanish Bayonet)[1]

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Jorrit 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.
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