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  7. New World Checkered-Skippers
  8. Common Checkered-Skipper and Allies
  9. Common Checkered-Skipper

species 29,364 observations

Common Checkered-Skipper

Burnsius communis

Status
native
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Supported by All

952 native plants
support it in the US
  • Caterpillar hosts Plants its caterpillars eat Apricot Globemallow, Alkali Mallow, Spreading Sida, Narrowleaf Globemallow 47
  • Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Alkali Heliotrope, Pacific Aster, Turkey Tangle Frogfruit, California Buckwheat 905

Range

United States

Greener is more native, amber more introduced; paler is less certain. How this was decided

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