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Small Checkered-Skipper

Pyrgus scriptura

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in California.January 37, February 32, March 34, April 42, May 41, June 30, July 26, August 26, September 33, October 34, November 44, December 34.
United States916
California412
Arizona164
New Mexico79
Nevada70
Texas70
Colorado69
Utah31
Idaho7
Mexico7

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
GenusGrizzled Skippers · Pyrgus

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