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Silver-spotted Skipper

Epargyreus clarus

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in North Carolina.January 584, February 703, March 651, April 1,042, May 1,046, June 789, July 1,219, August 1,263, September 617, October 607, November 470, December 538.
United States84,133
North Carolina7,379
Canada7,234
Ohio7,077
Virginia6,192
Ontario5,944
Maryland5,724
Illinois5,368
New York5,307
Pennsylvania4,979

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Physical

  • MetamorphosisUndergoes dramatic body transformation during developmentFrom its classification
  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • Animal pollinatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly pollinate flowers.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassInsects · Insecta
OrderButterflies and Moths · Lepidoptera
FamilySkippers · Hesperiidae
GenusSilverdrops · Epargyreus

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