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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) » Pyrgini » New World Checkered-Skippers (Burnsius) » Common or White Checkered Skipper (Burnsius Common or White Checkered Skipper)
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Butterfly with dark wings with white spots, blueish body - Burnsius
Copyright © 2016 Dick Locke

Butterfly with dark wings with white spots, blueish body - Burnsius
Between Wimberley and Blanco, Texas, USA
February 13, 2016
This is another new to me butterfly from the Texas Hill country. Thanks in advance for help with the ID!
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Contributed by Dick Locke on 14 February, 2016 - 9:04pm
Last updated 15 February, 2016 - 7:00am

I added a full-sized image of
I added a full-sized image of this butterfly to my web site:
http://www.dl-digital.com/ButterfliesHillCountry.htm
… Dick Locke, 6 March, 2016 - 12:51pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Cliff Ivy, 15 February, 2016 - 7:00am login or register to post comments

Either Common or White Checkered Skipper
which are identical except by dissection. Since the location is at the range edge overlap, this specimen can not be ID to species by phenotype. The bluish basal area is common to males.
… Cliff Ivy, 15 February, 2016 - 6:58am login or register to post comments

It's one of the checkered skippers
Pyrgus sp.
… James Bailey, 14 February, 2016 - 10:13pm login or register to post comments

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