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Oarisma garita (Garita Skipperling)

Synonyms: Hesperia garita; Oarisma jura; Thymele hylax

Wikipedia Abstract

Oarisma garita, the Garita skipperling, western skipperling or Garita skipper, is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers).This skipper ranges southeastern Manitoba to British Columbia and south through the American Midwest as far south as Mexico.
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Infraspecies

Oarisma garita calega
Oarisma garita garita

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  0.866 inches (.022 m)

Prey / Diet

Bouteloua aristidoides (needle grama)[2]
Eriocoma nelsonii[2]
Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass)[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.
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