Amblyscirtes carolina | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Amblyscirtes |
Species: | A. carolina |
Binomial name | |
Amblyscirtes carolina (Skinner, 1892) | |
Synonyms | |
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Amblyscirtes carolina, the Carolina roadside skipper, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from south-eastern Virginia, south to South Carolina, west to northern Mississippi. There are disjunct populations in Delaware, southern Illinois and northwest Arkansas.
The wingspan is 29–37 mm. Adults are on wing from April to September. There are three generations per year.
The larvae probably feed on Arundinaria tecta . Adults feed on flower nectar of sweet pepperbush, swamp milkweed, cinquefoil, wild strawberry, blackberry and ironweed.
Amblyscirtes aesculapius is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from eastern Oklahoma and eastern Texas, east to south-east Virginia, south along the Atlantic Coast to northern Florida.
Amblyscirtes alternata is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from south-eastern Virginia south to Florida, west to east Texas.
Amblyscirtes belli is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from eastern Kansas, central Oklahoma and central Texas east to south-west Ohio, central Kentucky, eastern Tennessee and western South Carolina.
Amblyscirtes celia is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Texas, south to north-eastern Mexico. Strays to south-western Louisiana.
Amblyscirtes hegon, the pepper-and-salt skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Nova Scotia and Maine, west to southern Manitoba, south to Georgia, northern Florida and south-eastern Texas. It is mostly absent from the coastal plain.
Amblyscirtes reversa, the reversed roadside skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. The species was first described by Frank Morton Jones in 1926. It has a scattered distribution from south-eastern Virginia, south to northern Georgia. It is also found in southern Mississippi and southern Illinois.
Amblyscirtes vialis is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from British Columbia east across southern Canada to Maine and Nova Scotia, south to central California, northern New Mexico, Texas, the Gulf states and northern Florida.
Atrytone arogos, the arogos skipper or beard-grass skipper, is an endangered species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.
Hesperia leonardus, the Leonard's skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. There are three subspecies. Next to the nominate species, these are the Pawnee skipper, which is found in North America from western Montana and south-eastern Saskatchewan east to Minnesota, south to central Colorado and Kansas. Leonard's skipper ranges from Nova Scotia and Maine west through southern Ontario and the Great Lakes region to Minnesota, south to North Carolina, Louisiana and Missouri and the Pawnee montane skipper is endemic to the South Platte River drainage of Colorado.
Hesperia metea, the cobweb skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It has a scattered distribution in the United States from southern Maine west to Wisconsin, south to central Georgia, the Gulf States and central Texas.
Amblyscirtes phylace is a species of butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and western Texas to Mexico.
Amblyscirtes simius, the simius roadside skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America from Texas to North Dakota but has been recorded in southern Saskatchewan.
Amblyscirtes oslari, the Oslar's roadside skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America from southern Alberta, Saskatchewan, and North Dakota south through the high plains and Rocky Mountains to Arizona, New Mexico, and south Texas.
Amblyscirtes linda, or Linda's roadside skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the family Hesperiidae. It was described by Hugh Avery Freeman in 1943 and is found in North America.
Amblyscirtes nereus, the slaty roadside skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.
Amblyscirtes eos, the dotted roadside skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.
Amblyscirtes aenus, the bronze roadside skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae. It is found in Central America and North America.