Ochlodes yuma | |
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Male specie of Ochlodes yuma | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Ochlodes |
Species: | O. yuma |
Binomial name | |
Ochlodes yuma (W. H. Edwards, 1873) | |
Ochlodes yuma, the Yuma skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae that lives in wetlands of western North America. [2] [3] [4] Its only known host is common reed (Phragmites australis). [5]
The MONA or Hodges number for Ochlodes yuma is 4057. [6]
These five subspecies belong to the species Ochlodes yuma:
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