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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Grass Skippers (Hesperiinae) » Hesperiini » Poanes » Umber Skipper - Hodges#4065 (Poanes melane)

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Copyright © 2007 ted edwards

Poanes melane

ventura, ventura County, California, USA
August 24, 2007
Size: about 1inch

coastal region... found in hiding about noon... flew back into hidden shadows just as i was moving around for frontal photos....

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Contributed by ted edwards on 24 August, 2007 - 11:14pm
Last updated 28 January, 2008 - 1:53pm

Moved

Moved from Butterflies.

… Jason D. Roberts, 26 September, 2007 - 11:28am

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thanks....

thank you jd..... sorry to have been away so long, ted

… ted edwards, 29 September, 2007 - 11:28pm

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WTH?

This looked for all the world like an Atrytonopsis species. Which would be very hard to explain for coastal CA. Then in your second shot it appeared to have some orange brown burnishing. Making it the much more likely female Umber Skipper. What it was doing in this odd position, I don't know.

… Herschel Raney, 26 August, 2007 - 10:03pm

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Umber

I agree on a female Poanes melane.

… Jason D. Roberts, 12 September, 2007 - 12:36pm

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complete mystery to me....

hershel, i was moving some equipment that i had stored under a tarp... this little critter was waiting for me in the middle of the covered area... what it was doing there, and how it managed to get there are both great mysteries to me... only thing i became very aware of was that it didn't care for the hot and bright sunlight that flooded the area once i removed the tarp, it only gave me a few seconds of shooting time before it flew into a thick and VERY dark clump of plants... ted

… ted edwards, 27 August, 2007 - 12:16am

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Not a moth

It's a butterfly- I assume a skipper. I'll leave it to others to say which one.

… Chuck Entz, 24 August, 2007 - 11:27pm

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thanks...

thanks chuck, the wings threw me... never saw them lifted (then again, i never saw them folded - aww heck, i'll just admit it... ALL i know for sure about insects is that they have six legs).... ted

… ted edwards, 24 August, 2007 - 11:37pm

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