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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 » Polites
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Skipper Butterfly - Polites
Copyright © 2020 Bill Johnson

Skipper Butterfly - Polites
Pine River, Cass County, Minnesota, USA
June 27, 2015
Is this a Peck's Skipper - Polites peckius? Thanks for ID help.
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Contributed by Bill Johnson on 23 September, 2020 - 2:42pm
Last updated 7 November, 2020 - 9:21am

Moved
Moved from Peck's Skipper.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 7 November, 2020 - 9:21am login or register to post comments

Polites - Moved
This one bothered me because there did not appear to be two separate
wide bands on VHW, (a basal band and a pm band).
Like these July Minnesota specimens:

The VHW alone resembled Mulberry Wing, but the FW doesn't fit.

It probably is a Peck's, but does not look representative of the typical individual to me.

It does not seem to fit any other likely species either.

So I will leave it at genus.
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Moved from Grass Skippers.
… Roy Cohutta Brown, 7 November, 2020 - 9:12am login or register to post comments

Moved
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