Heliopetes macaira

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Heliopetes macaira
Turks-cap white-skipper (Heliopetes macaira) male + female dorsal.jpg
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Heliopetes
Species:
H. macaira
Binomial name
Heliopetes macaira
(Reakirt, [1867])
Synonyms
  • Pyrgus macairaReakirt, [1867]
  • Hesperia macaria
  • Leucoscirtes niveaScudder, 1872 (preocc. Cramer, 1775)
  • Leucochitonea locutiaHewitson, 1875
  • Leucochitonea eulaliaPlötz, 1885
  • Heliopetes cnemusGodman & Salvin, [1897]
  • Heliopetes locutia
  • Leucochitonea orbigeraMabille, 1888
  • Heliopetes macaroidesWilliams & Bell, 1940

Heliopetes macaira, the Turk's-cap white-skipper , is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern Texas in North America, south through Central America to Paraguay.

Turks-cap white-skipper (Heliopetes macaira) male ventral.jpg

The wingspan is 32–35 mm. There are several generations with adults on wing from April to November in southern Texas.

The larvae feed on Malvaviscus drummondii . Adults feed on flower nectar.

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