Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Clickable Guide
Moths Butterflies Flies Caterpillars Flies Dragonflies Flies Mantids Cockroaches Bees and Wasps Walkingsticks Earwigs Ants Termites Hoppers and Kin Hoppers and Kin Beetles True Bugs Fleas Grasshoppers and Kin Ticks Spiders Scorpions Centipedes Millipedes

Calendar

TaxonomyBrowse
Info
ImagesLinksBooksData

Species Ochlodes agricola - Rural Skipper - Hodges#4055

Rural Skipper - Ochlodes agricola - female Hesperiid sp 3180 - Ochlodes agricola Sachem? - Ochlodes agricola Rural Skipper - Ochlodes agricola Woodland Skipper - Ochlodes agricola - male Ochlodes agricola? - Ochlodes agricola 8037203 skipper - Ochlodes agricola 8037226 Ochlodes agricola? - Ochlodes agricola
Show images of: caterpillars · adults · both
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 Ochlodes
Species agricola (Rural Skipper - Hodges#4055)
Hodges Number
4055
See Also
Woodland Skipper- Very similar ventrally; Rural typically has a darker smudge in the middle of the hindwing and a gray hindwing fringe. Above, Woodland has a thinner stigma, a larger orange subapical patch, and more orange between the stigma and margin.