Poanes aaroni, the Saffron Skipper, is a North America

North America

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n butterfly

Butterfly

A butterfly is a mainly day-flying insect of the order Lepidoptera, which includes the butterflies and moths. Like other holometabolous insects, the butterfly's life cycle consists of four parts: egg, larva, pupa and adult. Most species are diurnal. Butterflies have large, often brightly coloured...

 from the skipper

Skipper (butterfly)

A skipper or skipper butterfly is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. They are named after their quick, darting flight habits. There are more than 3500 recognized species of skippers and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South...

 family (Hesperiidae) which occurs in salt marshes along the Atlantic coast.

The upper side of the wings are vivid orange, with broad black borders. The underside of the hindwing is a paler orange with a pallid stripe in the center.

The larva

Larva

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 feeds exclusively on Smooth Cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora).

Four subspecies

Subspecies

Subspecies in biological classification, is either a taxonomic rank subordinate to species, ora taxonomic unit in that rank . A subspecies cannot be recognized in isolation: a species will either be recognized as having no subspecies at all or two or more, never just one...

are recognized:

• P. a. aaroni Skinner, 1890 – Aaron's Skipper
• P. a. bordeloni – Bordelon's Skipper
• P. a. howardi – Howard's Skipper
• P. a. minimus – Swamp Skipper