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  7. Skippers

family

Skippers

Hesperiidae

Includes
281 native 2 introduced 51 present
Where
In the US
Source
iNaturalist

Field notes

Children

  • Grass Skippers 152 native
  • Spread-wing Skippers 63 native
  • Dicot Skippers 57 native
  • Skipperlings 6 native
  • Firetip Skippers and Allies 2 native
  • Flat Skippers and Allies 1 native
  • Australian Skippers
  • Coeliadinae

Range

United States

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

Most observed native skippers All

Native to the US, by observations.

  • Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus 114,963 observations
  • Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus 106,459 observations
  • Huron Skipper Atalopedes huron 81,740 observations
  • Zabulon Skipper Lon zabulon 51,741 observations
  • Peck's Skipper Polites peckius 42,181 observations
  • Horace's Duskywing Erynnis horatius 36,448 observations
  • Clouded Skipper Lerema accius 32,968 observations
  • Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris 31,774 observations
  • Long-tailed Skipper Urbanus proteus 29,788 observations
  • Common Checkered-Skipper Burnsius communis 29,364 observations
  • Woodland Skipper Ochlodes sylvanoides 29,135 observations
  • Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor 25,904 observations
  • Juvenal's Duskywing Erynnis juvenalis 22,436 observations
  • Hobomok Skipper Lon hobomok 21,228 observations
  • Dorantes Longtail Cecropterus dorantes 19,896 observations
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