Pyrgus scriptura: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Genus
- Pyrgus
- Species
- Pyrgus scriptura
- Scientific Name
- Pyrgus scriptura
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pyrgus scriptura
Pyrgus scriptura, the small checkered skipper, is a species of skipper (family Hesperiidae). It is found from the Texas to Montana, southeastern Alberta, and southwestern Saskatchewan.
The wingspan is 16–22 mm. There are two generations from May to August.
The larva feed Malvaceae spp. and Sida hederacea.
...Pyrgus scriptura in languages:
- English
- Small Checkered-Skipper
- French
- petite hespérie damier
Images from inaturalist.org observations:
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Pyrgus accretus
- Pyrgus aladaghensis
- Pyrgus alpinus
- Pyrgus alveus
- Pyrgus andromedae
- Pyrgus armoricanus
- Pyrgus bieti
- Pyrgus bolkariensis
- Pyrgus cacaliae
- Pyrgus carlinae
- Pyrgus carthami
- Pyrgus centaureae
- Pyrgus centralitaliae
- Pyrgus chapmani
- Pyrgus cinarae
- Pyrgus cirsii
- Pyrgus colurnus
- Pyrgus foulquieri
- Pyrgus iliensis
- Pyrgus jupei
- Pyrgus lycurgus
- Pyrgus maculatus
- Pyrgus malvae
- Pyrgus melotis
- Pyrgus montivagus
- Pyrgus nepalensis
- Pyrgus onopordi
- Pyrgus picenus
- Pyrgus pontica
- Pyrgus ruralis
- Pyrgus schansiensis
- Pyrgus scriptura
- Pyrgus seminigra
- Pyrgus serratulae
- Pyrgus sibirica
- Pyrgus sidae
- Pyrgus speyeri
- Pyrgus tessellata
- Pyrgus warrenensis
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