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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 » Hesperiina » Branded Skippers (Hesperia) » Uncas Skipper - Hodges#4018 (Hesperia uncas)
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A silvery skipper on a thistle - Hesperia uncas
Copyright © 2012 Bob Webster

A silvery skipper on a thistle - Hesperia uncas
Southeast of Texline, Damas County, Texas, USA
June 4, 2012

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A silvery skipper on a thistle - Hesperia uncas A silvery skipper on a thistle - Hesperia uncas
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Contributed by Bob Webster on 5 June, 2012 - 11:45pm
Last updated 24 February, 2015 - 6:22pm

Moved
Moved from Grass Skippers.
… Cliff Ivy, 24 February, 2015 - 6:22pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Skippers.
… Corey Husic, 20 August, 2012 - 11:25am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… John F. Carr, 24 June, 2012 - 5:34pm login or register to post comments

That looks more like
Uncas Skipper (Hesperia uncas), with those dark spots between the white.

On a different note, Kaufmann shows Carus just reaching the far NW corner of Texas.
… psweet, 9 June, 2012 - 6:13am login or register to post comments

Heavily worn, but
Try Carus Skipper (Polites carus)
… psweet, 6 June, 2012 - 8:29am login or register to post comments

 
A new specimen
Thanks. I found another photo with a less worn specimen and added it here. Maybe it's a female, being lighter?

These look a lot like the Carus Skipper, but they were in the northwest corner of Texas, outside the range mentioned in butterfliesandmoths.org.

Can you tell anything from the additional photo?
… Bob Webster, 8 June, 2012 - 11:22pm login or register to post comments

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