Skipper Id request

[Ron Gatrelle]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Donna Brunet" <dbrunet at coin.org>
To: "Leps-L messages" <Leps-L at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2003 3:33 PM
Subject: Skipper Id request


> I took several photographs of a female skipper being followed by a male
> around a patch of Ox-Eye Sunflowers.  I think they were Sachems
(Atalopedes
> campestris) -- I'd appreciate any comments on my identification.
>
> You can find three photos at
> http://www.missouri.edu/~dabf31/ConfirmId/SkipperId.html
> They were taken in Columbia, Missouri, on September 4, 2003.
>
> Thanks,
> Donna

Yes, these are Sachems.  The ones with the while spots that look like
washed out Hesperia leonardus are female Sachems.   The Sachem (A.
campestris) should be called the "skipper mimic" as I know of no other
skipper that is so seasonally and populationally variable on its underside.
They are apt to be mistaken for several species.   I collected a very
brightly spotted female just last week in western North Carolina off
Ironweed convinced it was a Leonard's!!

Ron Gatrelle

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