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Nastra julia (Julia's Skipper)

Synonyms: Lerodea julia

Wikipedia Abstract

Nastra julia, the Julia's skipper, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found in North America from southern Texas south to central Mexico. The wingspan is 24–29 mm. Adults are on wing year round in southern Texas and from April to October in the rest of the range. The larvae feed on Cynodon dactylon. Adults feed on flower nectar.
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Prey / Diet

Cynodon dactylon var. dactylon (manienie)[1]
Sorghum halepense (aleppo milletgrass)[1]

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Citations

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♦ 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.
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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