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Achlyodes mithridates

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Family
  
Hesperiidae

Scientific name
  
Achlyodes mithridates

Rank
  
Subspecies

Class
  
Insecta

Genus
  
Achlyodes

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Butterflies and moths

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Similar
  
Achlyodes, Butterflies and moths, Appias drusilla, Urbanus dorantes, Heliopetes

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Achlyodes mithridates, the sickle-winged skipper or Jung's dusky wing, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from Argentina, north through tropical America and the West Indies to southern Texas. A regular stray north to central Texas, rarely to Arkansas and Kansas.

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The wingspan is 35–45 mm. Adults are on wing all year round in most of its range.

The larvae feed on leaves of Rutaceae species, including Zanthoxylum fagara in Texas and Zanthoxylum monophyllum in tropical America. Adults feed on flower nectar.

Subspecies

Note that several of these subspecies are considered species by some authors.

  • Achlyodes mithridates mithridates (Jamaica)
  • Achlyodes mithridates papinianus (Trinidad, Cuba)
  • Achlyodes mithridates tamenund (Mexico, Texas)
  • Achlyodes mithridates thraso (Peru, Argentina, Greater Antilles, southern Mexico to Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil)
  • Achlyodes mithridates minor (Puerto Rico, Dominica)
  • Achlyodes mithridates sagra (Haiti)

    • References

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