Paratrytone snowi

Paratrytone snowi

Vulnerable (NatureServe)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Hesperiidae
Genus: Paratrytone
Species:
P. snowi
Binomial name
Paratrytone snowi
Synonyms
  • Hesperia Snowi Edwards, 1877
  • Ochlodes snowi (Evans, [1955])

Paratrytone snowi, or Snow's skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.[2][3]

Description

The upperside of the wings are dark brown. The forewing has several clear spots, with males having a narrow black stigma. The underside is reddish brown with a black forewing base, in which the spots from the upperside are repeated below. The wingspan ranges from 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches (2.9 to 3.5 centimeters).[4]

References

  1. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 2026-03-12.
  2. ^ "Paratrytone snowi Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. ^ "Snow's Skipper Paratrytone snowi (W.H. Edwards, 1877) | Butterflies and Moths of North America". www.butterfliesandmoths.org. Retrieved 2026-03-12.

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