species 213 observations

Crystal Skipper

Atrytonopsis quinteri

Field notes

The Crystal skipper (Atrytonopsis quinteri) is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae that is found only along a 30-mile (50 km) stretch of barrier islands in North Carolina's Crystal Coast between Bear Island and the Rachel Carson Reserve. The skipper was first discovered in 1978 by Eric L. Quinter (where the species epithet quinteri comes from) and the paper describing it as a full species was published in 2015.

Supported by All

3 native plants
support it in the US

Nectar plants Plants whose flowers it visits Narrow-leaved Blue-eyed Grass, Eastern Blue-eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium capillare 3

Range

United States

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