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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) » Tropical Checkered-Skipper - Hodges#3968 (Burnsius oileus)
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lousy white and black butterfly - Burnsius oileus - male
Copyright © 2010 David Almquist

lousy white and black butterfly - Burnsius oileus - Male
Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida, USA
April 23, 2010
Lousy picture, so feel free to frass, but I figured that I'd see whether it could be ID'd.
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Contributed by David Almquist on 23 April, 2010 - 10:26pm
Last updated 25 December, 2011 - 5:31am

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 6 May, 2010 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

Checkered-skipper
Only two listed for your county at butterfliesandmoths.org - Common and Tropical. This looks like Tropical to me, but I'm far from certain. Your take?

… Ron Hemberger, 24 April, 2010 - 1:11am login or register to post comments

 
Thank you. Looks like it might be,
but I don't know enough to say for sure and the angle and image quality don't help.
… David Almquist, 24 April, 2010 - 7:48pm login or register to post comments

 
Hard to describe,but let me try.
Look at the inside right wing in your photo. About half way down and close to the leading edge is an oval and sort of an hourglass below it. (Shapes are a bit distorted due to camera angle.)

On the Tropical is a circle and sort of } { symbol adjacent to it. These correspond to the oval/hourglass on your butterfly and do not appear on the Common.

Hope this helps; it's as good as I can do.
… Ron Hemberger, 24 April, 2010 - 11:12pm login or register to post comments

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