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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 » Peck's Skipper - Hodges#4036 (Polites peckius)

Species Polites peckius - Peck's Skipper - Hodges#4036

Classification · Hodges Number · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References
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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 Hesperiinae (Grass Skippers)
Tribe Hesperiini
Genus Polites
Species peckius (Peck's Skipper - Hodges#4036)
Hodges Number
4036
Other Common Names
Yellow Patch Skipper
Yellow Spotted Skipper
Yellow Spot Skipper
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Polites coras (senior synonym)
Papilio cora
Hesperia peckius
Hesperia wamsutta
Size
Wingspan 1 to 1.25"
Identification
Upperside of male is brown with reddish-orange patches; FW has a sinuous stigma. Female is darker with no stigma. Underside of the HW of both sexes has a patch of large yellow spots in the center surrounded by dark brown.
Range
"British Columbia east across southern Canada to Nova Scotia; south to northeastern Oregon, southern Colorado, northwest Arkansas, and northern Georgia"
Food
Larvae live in leaf shelters on their host plants - Rice cutgrass (Leersia oryzoides); probably bluegrass (Poa pratensis), bromes (Bromus spp.) and other grasses.
Adults feed on nectar from a wide variety of flowers.
Internet References
Butterflies and Moths of North America species account including map of confirmed county records.
US Forest Service fact sheet
Wikipedia
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 9 April, 2004 - 4:34pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, Beatriz Moisset, Ted Kropiewnicki, Robert Lord Zimlich, Abigail Parker
Last updated 15 May, 2016 - 6:46pm

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