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  2. Skipper (butterfly) - Wikipedia

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    The third and rather small butterfly superfamily is the moth-butterflies (Hedyloidea), which are restricted to the Neotropics, but recent phylogenetic analyses suggest the traditional Papilionoidea are paraphyletic, thus the subfamilies should be reorganised to reflect true cladistic relationships. [3] [4] Grass Skipper Butterfly atalopedes ...

  3. Pyrgus centaureae wyandot - Wikipedia

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    Pyrgus centaureae wyandot, the Appalachian grizzled skipper, is a small, brown, gray and white butterfly known to inhabit parts of the Appalachian highlands and Northern Michigan. It can be identified by its characteristic checkered wing pattern formed by the scales on the fore- and hindwings.

  4. Northern grizzled skipper - Wikipedia

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    The northern grizzled skipper (Pyrgus centaureae) is a Holarctic species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae) with a range in North America from the subarctic to the north, New Mexico to the south, and the Appalachian Mountains to the east.In the Palearctic the species which was described from Norway is distributed across Scandinavia and the northern part of European Russia across the ...

  5. Heliopetes ericetorum - Wikipedia

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    Heliopetes ericetorum, the northern white-skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America in the United States from eastern Washington south to western Colorado , southern California and Arizona , and in Baja California in north-western Mexico.

  6. Grass skippers - Wikipedia

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    With over 2,000 described species, this is the largest skipper butterfly subfamily and occurs worldwide except in New Zealand. [6] About 50 percent of grass skippers live in the Neotropics . [ 7 ] 137 species are native to North America.

  7. Hesperia dacotae - Wikipedia

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    Hesperia dacotae, the Dakota skipper, is a small to medium-sized North American butterfly.It has a wingspan of approximately one inch and the antennae form a hook. The male's wings are a tawny-orange to brown on the forewings with a prominent mark and dusty yellow on the lower part of the wing.

  8. Hesperia colorado - Wikipedia

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    Hesperia colorado, the western branded skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from in Eurasia and north-western Africa, coast to coast in North America in boreal and subalpine areas south as far as Colorado , hence the Latin name.

  9. Pyrgus malvae - Wikipedia

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    Pyrgus malvae, the grizzled skipper, is a butterfly species from the family Hesperiidae. It is a small skipper (butterfly) with a chequered pattern on its wings that appears to be black and white. This butterfly can be found throughout Europe and is common in central and southern regions of England.