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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Butterflies and Skippers (Papilionoidea) » Skippers (Hesperiidae) » Dicot Skippers (Eudaminae) » Flashers (Telegonus) » Qian's Flasher - Hodges#3896 (Telegonus tsongae)
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Moth? ID please - Telegonus tsongae
Copyright © 2004 daveP

Moth? ID please - Telegonus tsongae
north, Erath County, Texas, USA
October 21, 2004
Must be a passer through. Haven't seen this one before.
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Contributed by daveP on 22 October, 2004 - 11:05am
Last updated 28 December, 2017 - 5:35pm

county
Hi doc, the county would be Erath. And I think it was a first here. The sighting was about 5 mi.NE of Stephenville.
… daveP, 11 September, 2007 - 12:24pm login or register to post comments

county?
Dave - In which county did you take this photo? I am subscribed to the TX-Butterfly listserv, through which I can relay your sighting, which might be a first record for its county.

Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D.
Program Specialist
World Birding Center
Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park
http://www.worldbirdingcenter.org/sites/mission/index.phtml
joshua.rose@tpwd.state.tx.us
956-584-9156 x 236
… Joshua Stuart Rose, 9 September, 2007 - 12:50pm login or register to post comments

Beautiful
Aside from the rarity of the skipper in the US (of which I was not aware), this picture is beautiful! Beautiful skipper and beautiful setting!

--Stephen

Stephen Cresswell
Buckhannon, WV
www.stephencresswell.com
… Stephen_WV, 22 October, 2004 - 5:29pm login or register to post comments

Two-barred Flasher
Dave -- your picture is priceless! There are a lot of good people at the University of Texas who are interested in tracking this beautiful skipper. Go to this link and submit your photo. The contact at one time was Chris Durden -- but he may have moved on by now.

http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/tbflasher.html

Darryl Searcy, Conecuh County, Alabama
… Darryl N Searcy, 22 October, 2004 - 2:26pm login or register to post comments

Skipper
It's a skipper, a type of butterfly, not a moth.

Looks like the Two-barred Flasher, Astraptes fulgerator. See this page and page 328 of the Peterson Eastern Butterflies guide (1). It states the range is resident from the lower Rio Grande Valley to Argentina, but strays to central Texas, so this could be your butterfly. The web site linked has a confirmed record near Dallas, too.
… Mike Boone, 22 October, 2004 - 12:01pm login or register to post comments

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