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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 » Polites » Draco Skipper - Hodges#4039 (Polites draco)
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Butterfly on aster - Polites draco
Copyright © 2013 kluanelaker

Butterfly on aster - Polites draco
Kluane Lake, Yukon Territory, Canada
July 14, 2013
Size: About 5-7 cm wingspan
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Contributed by kluanelaker on 14 July, 2013 - 9:32pm
Last updated 20 December, 2014 - 5:17pm

Moved
Moved from Grass Skippers.
… Cliff Ivy, 20 December, 2014 - 5:17pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Skippers.
… John S. Ascher, 27 October, 2014 - 6:22am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 4 August, 2013 - 12:43pm login or register to post comments

If I saw this in Wisconsin
I would call it a Sachem.
… gofishwi, 15 July, 2013 - 6:49pm login or register to post comments

 
relevance
of your comment?
… Larry de March, 15 July, 2013 - 7:16pm login or register to post comments

There appear
to be only a few small orange skippers in Yukon. http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/uasm/yukon.pdf
This looks like Polites draco though max. wingspan is 3cm
… Larry de March, 15 July, 2013 - 8:56am login or register to post comments

It's a skipper. Tough to ID...
...but someone can likely tell you more.
… Ron Hemberger, 15 July, 2013 - 12:29am login or register to post comments

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