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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Spread-wing Skippers (Pyrginae) » Erynnini » Duskywings (Erynnis) » Horace's Duskywing - Hodges#3952 (Erynnis horatius)
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Horaces Duskywing - Erynnis horatius
Copyright © 2009 Mike Jennings

Horaces Duskywing - Erynnis horatius
Portsmouth, Virginia, USA
August 20, 2009
Size: 5cm
A duskywing? Further ID welcome. Thanks in anticipation.
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Contributed by Mike Jennings on 25 August, 2009 - 7:41pm
Last updated 27 August, 2009 - 11:10am

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Moved from ID Request.
… Mike Jennings, 27 August, 2009 - 11:08am login or register to post comments

Yes, a duskywing
Sorry, but I don't know eastern species.
… Ron Hemberger, 25 August, 2009 - 8:04pm login or register to post comments

 
guess Horace's
by date and the amount of brown
… Jason Forbes, 26 August, 2009 - 7:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Agreed.
There are only four duskwings listed for VA at butterfliesandmoths.org, so I gave a look. (By way of comparison, there are a dozen in TX and only a couple here in southern California.)
… Ron Hemberger, 26 August, 2009 - 8:58pm login or register to post comments

 
Looks good to me
Thanks guys. I checked Butterflies of the Carolinas and Virginias http://www.rlephoto.com/ and he lists a few more but the time of year seems to limit it to Horace's as opposed to Juvenal's.

This does raise the question as to why 2 species of american duskywings are named after 1st century Roman poets?
… Mike Jennings, 27 August, 2009 - 11:06am login or register to post comments

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