Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Polites coras [return to Home Page]

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Scientific name: Arthropoda: Insecta: Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae: Polites coras
Common Name: Peck’s Skipper

Country: USA
State/District: DC
County: not applicable
Date:

Photographer: E. M. Barrows

Identifier: E. M. Barrows
Collector: not applicable
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Keywords: A Chesapeake & Ohio National Historical Park COCNHP Garden-1 orange butterfly white flower
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Figures 1–2.   A male Peck’s Skipper resting on a leaf of Water Dragon (Saururus cernuus), August 2002, Washington, DC.

Figure 3–4.   The same male feeding on nectar of Green Frog Fruit (Lippia lanceolata).


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