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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Giant Skippers (Megathyminae) » Megathymus » Cofaqui Giant-Skipper - Hodges#4147 (Megathymus cofaqui)
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Skipper - Megathymus cofaqui
Copyright © 2020 Alex Nelson

Skipper - Megathymus cofaqui
Citrus Springs, Citrus County, Florida, USA
July 29, 2020

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Contributed by Alex Nelson on 13 August, 2020 - 3:27pm
Last updated 9 September, 2020 - 10:14pm

Moved
Moved from Skippers.
… Cliff Ivy, 9 September, 2020 - 10:14pm login or register to post comments

Do you . . . ?
Have any other photos of this? I'm almost ready to call it Megathymus cofaqui but those post median spots on the HW seem a bit much. A female "peninsular race" has little markings like that at the leading HW edge.

Edit: I was thinking those two little dots were at the leading edge of the HW. Everything is sort of blending together there because of the lighting. So I am checking Atrytonopsis more closely. Edit: The shape of the wings do not appear long and pointed enough for Atrytonopsis.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 6 September, 2020 - 7:09am login or register to post comments

 
I've linked
the only other image I have. Sorry the lighting kind of sucks on all of these; I was battling Florida morning lens fog something fierce if memory serves. After staring at the images for a couple of weeks I was kind of leaning toward M. cofaqui also, but it also just doesn't look quite like you'd expect. I'll be honest, this one's been driving me crazy.
… Alex Nelson, 6 September, 2020 - 8:46am login or register to post comments

 
Still on it . . .
LOL. These are the kind that make one learn more though, even if wrong ID. It's all good.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 6 September, 2020 - 9:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Butterflies and Skippers.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 6 September, 2020 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

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