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  2. 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.

  3. Hesperia (butterfly) - Wikipedia

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    Hesperia columbia (Scudder, 1872) – Columbian skipper – California to Southwest Oregon Hesperia comma (Linnaeus, 1758) – silver-spotted skipper or common branded skipper Hesperia dacotae (Skinner, 1911) – Dakota skipper

  4. List of butterflies of North America (Hesperiidae) - Wikipedia

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    Yucca giant-skipper, Megathymus yuccae (includes coloradensis) Cofaqui giant-skipper, Megathymus cofaqui (includes harrisi) Strecker's giant-skipper, Megathymus streckeri; Ursine giant-skipper, Megathymus ursus; Manfreda giant-skipper, Stallingsia maculosa; References. Jim P. Brock, Kenn Kaufman (2003). Butterflies of North America.

  5. Oarisma poweshiek - Wikipedia

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    Oarisma poweshiek, the Poweshiek skipperling, [3] is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers). The range of this species in Canada is restricted to southeastern Manitoba, and in the United States it historically ranged from the Dakotas to the southern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

  6. 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 ...

  7. 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.

  8. Sheyenne National Grassland - Wikipedia

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    It is the only National Grassland in the tallgrass prairie region of the U.S. [3] The grassland provides habitat for the largest population of greater prairie chickens in North Dakota, as well as the Dakota skipper butterfly, the western prairie fringed orchid, and numerous ferns, as well as grazing land for approximately 83 cattle ranchers. [4]

  9. 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.