Grass Skipper ID Help

[Gary Anweiler Edmonton Alberta Canada]

Hi Daniel

This is indeed an unusual skipper - in fact - it is a moth - which in my 
mind are much more beautiful and much more interesting than those little 
grass skippers !

It is Schinia jaguarina - one of the Flower Moths in the family Heliothinae.

You have one of the North American experts on this family living right there 
in Colorado with you, a guy by the name of Chuck Harp.

Cheers

Gary Anweiler

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Daniel Fosha" <danfosha at aol.com>
To: "Lepidoptera List" <leps-l at lists.yale.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 11:03 PM
Subject: Grass Skipper ID Help


> Hello,
>               this photo was taken Wednesday on Big Bluestem (Androgon
> Gerardii) just south of the Colorado Springs Airport, on some unsual
> prairie. Anyone have an idea?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan Fosha
> Denver, CO
> 



 
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