Polites sabuleti: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Polites
- Species
- Polites sabuleti
- Scientific Name
- Polites sabuleti
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Polites sabuleti
Polites sabuleti, the sandhill skipper or saltgrass skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern British Columbia and eastern Washington, south through California and northern Arizona to Baja California and east to south-eastern Wyoming, central Colorado, and north-eastern New Mexico. It is an introduced species in Hawaii.
The wingspan is 22–32 mm. There is one generation with adults on wing from June to August at high elevations. There are several generations from March to October in the southern part of its range and at low elevations.
The larvae feed on various grasses, including Cynodon dactylon, Poa pratensis, Distichlis spicata var. stricta, Eragrostis trichodes, Agrostis scabra, Festuca idahoensis, and Festuca brachyphylla. Adults feed on flower nectar.
...Polites sabuleti in languages:
- English
- Sandhill Skipper
- French
- hespérie des dunes
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Parent Taxon
Child Taxa
- Polites sabuleti aestivalis
- Polites sabuleti albamontana
- Polites sabuleti alkaliensis
- Polites sabuleti basinensis
- Polites sabuleti channelensis
- Polites sabuleti chusca
- Polites sabuleti genoa
- Polites sabuleti margaretae
- Polites sabuleti ministigma
- Polites sabuleti nigrescens
- Polites sabuleti sabuleti
- Polites sabuleti sinemaculata
- Polites sabuleti tecumseh




























































































































































