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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) » White Checkered-Skipper - Hodges#3967 (Burnsius albescens)
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white checkered skipper? - Burnsius albescens
Copyright © 2008 coultersca

white checkered skipper? - Burnsius albescens
Boyce Thompson arboretum Az, Arizona, USA
April 5, 2008
This is whiter than I expected from the books. Does the desert have a local form ?

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Contributed by coultersca on 5 April, 2008 - 8:29pm
Last updated 23 November, 2008 - 5:18am

Pyrgus albescens is almost certainly correct
Since P. communis isn't likely to be down in the desert. Always inpossible to absolutely certain without disection.

However, yes this is in this group, and yes, a bit whiter than usual, but not out of the ordinary.

Moved from Butterflies.
… David J. Ferguson, 23 November, 2008 - 5:18am login or register to post comments

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