The Pahaska Skipper is a 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...

 of the Hesperiidae family.

It is found from in narrow belt of states extending from Texas to North Dakota, just reaching Canada in southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

The wingspan

Wingspan

The wingspan of an airplane or a bird, is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777 has a wingspan of about ; and a Wandering Albatross caught in 1965 had a wingspan of , the official record for a living bird.The term wingspan, more technically extent, is...

 is 28–33 mm. The flight period is from June to early July in the northern U.S.

The larvae feed on Blue Grama (Bouteloua gracilis), Fluff Grass (Erioneuron pulchellum), Poaceae

Poaceae

The Poaceae is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of flowering plants. Members of this family are commonly called grasses, although the term "grass" is also applied to plants that are not in the Poaceae lineage, including the rushes and sedges...

 sp., and Tridens pulchella.

Subspecies

Listed alphabetically.

• H. p. martini MacNeill, 1964
• H. p. pahaska
• H. p. williamsi Lindsey, 1940

External links

• Pahaska Skipper, Butterflies and Moths of North America