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Skipper - Hesperia leonardus
Copyright © 2005 john and jane balaban

Skipper - Hesperia leonardus
Somme Prairie Nature Preserve, Northbrook, Cook County, Illinois, USA
September 3, 2005
We're thinking this is Hesperiinae. We photographed it on a blazing star in a grade A tallgrass prairie remnant.
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Contributed by john and jane balaban on 14 October, 2005 - 9:10pm
Last updated 15 October, 2005 - 5:35pm

looks like a male Leonard's Skipper
It's definately a male with that black stigma. Both the HW and FW patterns look consistent with the picture in Butterflies through Binoculars the East. And the season is right, Leonard's being one of the late summer skippers.
… tom murray, 14 October, 2005 - 11:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Tom.
Not sure we would have figured it out. Is the fact that it's flying in September the deciding factor for you? How do you distinguish it from and ?
… john and jane balaban, 15 October, 2005 - 4:42pm login or register to post comments

 
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Fiery, Sachem and a handful of others are also flying at the same time, so that just helped narrow it down a little. The biggest thing was on the top of the FW, that one bold triangular spot dossn't have a jagged trailing edge, and it doesn't have any other orange squares touching it.
… tom murray, 15 October, 2005 - 5:03pm login or register to post comments

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