Euphyes metacomet

• Interesting Facts
• Description
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Description

Family Hesperiidae

'The Hesperiidae are members of the Superfamily Hesperioidea. Worldwide in distribution, skippers are richest in the tropics. More than 3,500 species are described, with approximately 275 in North America, many of which are found only in Arizona and Texas. Most skippers are small to medium, usually orange, brown, black, white, or gray. A few have iridescent colors. Skippers have large eyes, short antennae (often with hooked clubs), stout bodies, and three pairs of walking legs . Their flight is often rapid, making wing movement appear blurred. Adults of most species have long probicscises and feed on floral nectar, but some also take up nutrients from bird droppings. Males have scent scales found in modified forewing patches. Males of most species locate mates by perching (grass and giant-skippers), though some patrol, especially in the open-winged skippers. Globular eggs are laid singly.

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Subfamily Hesperiinae

The grass skippers are members of the Family Hesperiidae. Distributed worldwide, they comprise more than 2,000 species, most of which are found in the American tropics. The small to medium-sized adults usually have abruptly angled antennae with an apiculus at the tip . Adults of many temperate species are predominantly orange, while brown is the most common color of the tropical species. Male forewings usually have a brand or stigma with specialized scales . Most species have long proboscises and are avid flower-visitors. Adults flight is rapid, and perching posture is unique: the hindwings are opened at a wider angle than the forewings. Males of most species perch while looking for mates. Caterpillars feed on monocotyledons (grasses and allied plants ) and live in silken leaf nests that sometimes extend underground. Grass skippers typically overwinter as caterpillars within their shelters .[2]

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Similar Species

Members of the genus Euphyes

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 16 species and subspecies in this genus:

E. arpa (Palmetto Skipper) · E. bayensis (Bay Skipper) · E. berryi (Berry's Skipper) · E. bimacula (Two-Spotted Skipper) · E. bimacula illinois (Two-Spotted Skipper) · E. conspicua (Black Dash) · E. dion (Dion Skipper) · E. dukesi (Dukes' Skipper) · E. dukesi calhouni (Dukes' Skipper) · E. dukesi dukesi (Dukes' Skipper) · E. pilatka (Palatka Skipper) · E. pilatka klotsi (Palatka Skipper) · E. vestris (Dun Skipper) · E. vestris harbisoni (Dun Skipper) · E. vestris metacomet (Eastern Dun Skipper) · E. vestris vestris (Dun Skipper)

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Further Reading

• A catalogue of the butterflies known to occur in Indiana / by W. S. Blatchley. S.l.: s.n., 1891? url p. 38.
• Brief guide to the commoner butterflies of the northern United States and Canada; being an introduction to a knowledge of their life-histories, by Samuel Hubbard Scudder. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1893. url , .
• Bulletin - New York State Museum. Albany: New York State Education Dept. url p. 882.
• Bulletin of the Natural History Society of New Brunswick. St. John, N. B., Natural History Society of New Brunswick. url p. 224.
• Entomological news, and proceedings of the Entomological Section of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia[Entomological Rooms of the Academy of Natural Sciences] url p. 207, p. 56.
• Flowers and insects; lists of visitors of four hundred and fifty-three flowers, by Charles Robertson. Carlinville, Ill., n.p.1928. url p. 114, p. 118, p. 18, p. 21, p. 33, p. 71, p. 82, p. 98.
• Genera insectorum / publiés par P. Wytsman. Bruxelles, L. Desmet-Verteneuil [etc.]1902-1970. url p. 128.
• Journal of the New York Entomological Society. Lawrence, Kan.: Allen Press [etc.] url p. 138.
• Memorial of life and entomologic work of Joseph Albert Lintner, state entomologist, 1874-98, by Ephraim Porter Felt. Albany: University of the State of New York, 1899. url p. 460.
• Psyche. Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge Entomological Club url p. 257, p. 260, p. 278, p. 7.
• The Canadian entomologist. Ottawa [etc.]Entomological Society of Canada [etc.] url p. 20, p. 243, p. 243.
• The Ohio journal of science. Columbus, Ohio, The Ohio State University and the Ohio Academy of Science url p. 236.
• The butterflies of the eastern United States and Canada: with special reference to New England / By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. Cambridge: The author, 1889. url , , , , , , p. 1534, p. 1698, p. 1739, p. 1941, p. 94.
• The butterfly book a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America / by W.J. Holland. Toronto: W. Briggs, 1898. url .
• The butterfly book: a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America / by W.J. Holland. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page, 1922, c1898. url p. 218.
• The butterfly book; a popular guide to a knowledge of the butterflies of North America. With 48 plates in color-photography, reproductions of butterflies in the author's collection, and many text illustrations presenting 1922 Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Page, 1922 [c1898] url fig. 175, p. 360.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2971723
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Lep-183661.0
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1589629

Footnotes

1. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/taxonomy?f=19&sci=Hesperiidae&com=Skippers [back]
2. http://bugguide.net/index.php?q=search&keys=Stinga&search=Search [back]

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