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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)

Species Erynnis horatius - Horace's Duskywing - Hodges#3952

Classification · Hodges Number · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Horace's duskywing skipper - Erynnis horatius

Horace's Duskywing - Erynnis horatius - female

Horace's Duskywing - Erynnis horatius - male - female

Horace's Duskywing - Erynnis horatius - male

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)

Superfamily Papilionoidea (Butterflies and Skippers)

Family Hesperiidae (Skippers)

Subfamily Pyrginae (Spread-wing Skippers)

Tribe Erynnini

Genus Erynnis (Duskywings)

Species horatius (Horace's Duskywing - Hodges#3952)

Hodges Number

3952

Explanation of Names

Erynnis horatius (Scudder & Burgess, 1870)

Identification

Fringes are brown. Upperside of male forewing is dark brown with little contrast and no white overscaling. Upperside of female forewing is light brown with a contrasting pattern and large transparent spots. Underside of hindwing is usually without 2 spots below the apex. Male has a costal fold containing yellow scent scales; female has a patch of scent scales on the 7th abdominal segment.

Range

e US to NM & CO - Map (MPG)

Habitat

Open woodlands and edges, clearings, fencerows, wooded swamps, power-line right-of-ways, open fields, roadsides.

Season

mostly Mar-Oct (MPG)

See Also

Juvenal's Duskywing has more gray scaling on dorsal forewing for each sex and two light spots on upper margin of ventral hindwing.

Print References

Daniels, Butterflies of Florida (1)

Internet References

Moth Photographers Group - MPG

Butterflies of America - BOA

Butterflies and Skippers and North America - BAMONA

Works Cited

1.	Butterflies of Florida Field Guide (Our Nature Field Guides) Jaret C. Daniels. 2003. Adventure Publications.

Contributed by tom murray on 14 May, 2005 - 9:17am
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, john and jane balaban, Lynette Elliott, Mike Quinn, Jason D. Roberts, Nick Block
Last updated 16 September, 2018 - 7:52pm

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