Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Atelopedes campestris [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Atelopedes campestris
Common Name: Satchem

Country: USA
State/District: VA
County: Fairfax
Date:

Photographer: Susan Hitch

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable

Location: Dyke Marsh Wildlife Preserve

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Keywords: A brown butterfly brown insect DMWP DMWPar Garden-1 pink flower skipper
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A hidden predatory arthropod (such as an ambush bug or crab spider) is holding this new male Satchem on Swamp Milkweed.   These predators frequently catch and consume small butterflies in DMWP.

E.M.B.

Venables, B. A., and E. M. Barrows.   1985.   Skippers: Pollinators or nectar thieves?   Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 39: 299–312.   (Primarily about the Satchem and the Silver-spotted Skipper)



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