Animalia > Arthropoda > Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae > Oarisma > Oarisma powesheik

Oarisma powesheik (Powesheik Skipperling)

Synonyms: Hesperia powesheik

Endangered Species

Status: Critically Endangered
View IUCN Record: Oarisma powesheik

Attributes

Wing Span [1]  1.063 inches (.027 m)

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Calvin College Ecosystem Preserve 90 Michigan, United States

Prey / Diet

Eleocharis elliptica (elliptic spikerush)[2]
Poa pratensis (Kentucky bluegrass)[3]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Butterflies of Canada, Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility
♦ 2HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants Gaden S. Robinson, Phillip R. Ackery, Ian J. Kitching, George W. Beccaloni AND Luis M. Hernández
♦ 3Jorrit 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