Erynnis zarucco

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Zarucco duskywing
Erynnis zarucco (Lucas, 1857). Zarucco Duskywing - Flickr - gailhampshire.jpg
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Secure  (NatureServe) [1]
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Erynnis
Species:
E. zarucco
Binomial name
Erynnis zarucco
(H. Lucas, 1857)
Synonyms
  • Thanaos zaruccoH. Lucas, 1857
  • Nisoniades terentius Scudder & Burgess, 1870
  • Nisoniades ovidiusScudder & Burgess, 1870
  • Nisoniades naevius Lintner, 1881
  • Antigonus diogenes Plötz, 1884

Erynnis zarucco, commonly known as the zarucco duskywing, is a species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found (rarely) from southern Ontario to the southeastern United States. [2]

The wingspan is 32–38 mm. There are three generations in the deep south but only two in the north. [2]

The larvae feed on tree and herbaceous Fabaceae .

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References

  1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Erynnis zarucco Zarucco Duskywing". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  2. 1 2 Zarucco Duskywing, Butterflies of Canada