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Family Hesperiidae - Skippers

Dicot Skippers · Grass Skippers · Intermediate Skippers · Giant Skippers · Spread-wing Skippers
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Subfamily Eudaminae - Dicot Skippers
Hoary Edge Skipper - Achalarus lyciades Potrillo Skipper - Cabares potrillo longtailed skipper lacking long tails? - Urbanus proteus Turquoise Longtail - Urbanus evona Is this a long-tailed skipper? - Urbanus proteus Epargyreus clarus Arizona Skipper - Codatractus arizonensis Urbanus proteus (unless I'm mistaken) - Urbanus proteus

Subfamily Hesperiinae - Grass Skippers
Dun Skipper - Euphyes vestris Copaeodes aurantica - Copaeodes aurantiaca Crossline Skipper - Polites origenes barred Skipper - Hylephila phyleus mating skippers - Polites themistocles - male - female Poanes viator - male Skipper - Polites peckius Byssus Skipper - Problema byssus - female

Subfamily Heteropterinae - Intermediate Skippers
Arctic Skipper - Carterocephalus mandan Arctic Skipper - Carterocephalus mandan - male Hesperiidae: Carterocephalus palaemon? - Carterocephalus mandan Unknown Skipper - Piruna polingii Arizona lepidopteran - Piruna aea Many-spotted Skipperling - Piruna aea Carterocephalus mandan Hesperiidae: Carterocephalus mandan - Carterocephalus mandan

Subfamily Megathyminae - Giant Skippers
Which Agathymus sp? Which Agathymus sp?

Subfamily Pyrginae - Spread-wing Skippers
Duskywing - Erynnis baptisiae - female Erynnis funeralis - female Unknown Skipper - Burnsius communis - male Dreamy Duskywing - Erynnis icelus Common Sootywing - Pholisora catullus Larva leaf shelter - Apyrrothrix araxes Celotes nessus Probable Hayhurst’s Scallopwing Caterpillar - Staphylus hayhurstii


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