Skippers (Hesperiidea)

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Order: Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera)

Superfamily: Butterflies (Papilionidea)

Family: Skippers (Hesperiidae)

Subfamily: Grass Skippers (Hesperiinae)


Clouded Skipper Lerema accius

Clouded Skipper
male - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)
Clouded Skipper
(May, St. Charles Co., MO)



Dun Skipper Euphyes vestris

Dun Skipper
(September, St. Charles Co., MO)
Dun Skipper
(September, St. Charles Co., MO)



Fiery Skipper Hylephila phyleus

male Fiery Skipper
male - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)
male Fiery Skipper
male - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)
female Fiery Skipper
female - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)



Peck's Skipper Polites peckius

Peck's Skipper
(August, St. Charles Co., MO)
female Peck's Skipper
female - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)



Least Skipper Ancyloxypha numitor

Least Skipper
(August, St. Charles Co., MO)



Sachem Skipper Atalopedes campestris

male Sachem Skipper
male - (August, St. Charles Co., MO)
female Sachem Skipper
female - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)
male Sachem Skipper
male - (October, St. Charles Co., MO)



Broad-winged Skipper Poanes viator

Broad-winged Skipper
(August, St. Charles Co., MO)



Zabulon Skipper Poanes zabulon

Zabulon Skipper
(May, St. Charles Co., MO)
Zabulon Skipper
(May, St. Charles Co., MO)
Zabulon Skipper
(May, St. Charles Co., MO)


Subfamily: Spread-wing Skippers (Pyrginae)


Common Checkered-Skipper Pyrgus communis

Common Checkered-Skipper
(September, St. Charles Co., MO)
Common Checkered-Skipper
(September, St. Charles Co., MO)



Juvenal's Duskywing Erynnis juvenalis

male Juvenal's Duskywing
male - (July, St. Charles Co., MO)
male Juvenal's Duskywing
male - (July, St. Charles Co., MO)



Silver-spotted Skipper Epargyreus clarus

Silver-spotted Skipper
(September, St. Charles Co., MO)
Silver-spotted Skipper
(June, St. Charles Co., MO)
Silver-spotted Skipper
(September, St. Charles Co., MO)