Dusted Skipper
Atrytonopsis hianna (Scudder, 1868)
Family: Hesperiidae
Subfamily: Hesperiinae
Identification: Fringes are brown with a few white spots. Upperside is gray-black; male forewing has a tiny stigma. Underside of hindwing is gray with white dusting outwardly and usually at least one white dot at the wing base. Populations on the southern Great Plains (A. h. turneri) are paler gray; those in Florida and along the southern Atlantic coast (A. h. loammi) have white spots on the hindwing undersides.
Wing Span: 1 1/4 - 1 11/16 inches (3.2 - 4.3 cm).
Life History: To watch for receptive females, males perch on or near the ground during the daytime. Caterpillars eat leaves and live in tents of silked-together leaves. Fully-grown caterpillars hibernate and pupate in a sealed nest at the base of the host plant.
Flight: One brood from May-June in the north; two broods from March-October in Florida.
Caterpillar Hosts: Little bluestem (Andropogon scoparius) and big bluestem (A. gerardi).
Adult Food: Nectar from flowers including Japanese honeysuckle, wild strawberry, blackberry, wild hyacinth, phlox, vervain, and red clover.
Habitat: Grasslands, prairies, barrens, and old fields.
Range: Local. Eastern Wyoming, central Colorado, northern New Mexico, and central Texas east to New Hampshire and Massachusetts; south to peninsular Florida and the Gulf Coast.
Conservation: Not usually required.
NCGR: G4 - Apparently secure globally, though it might be quite rare in parts of its range, especially at the periphery.
Management Needs: None reported.
Comments: NULL
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Observation date: Mar 21, 2017
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Region: Vernon Parish, Louisiana, United States
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Region: Kalkaska County, Michigan, United States
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Region: Knox County, Tennessee, United States
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Submitted by: CA Ivy
Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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Observation date: May 12, 2015
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Region: Worcester County, Maryland, United States
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Region: Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
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Region: Cumberland County, Virginia, United States
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Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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Region: Gloucester County, New Jersey, United States
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Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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Region: Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States
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Region: Monroe County, Tennessee, United States
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Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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Observation date: May 30, 2013
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Region: Boulder County, Colorado, United States
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Region: Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
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Region: Burnett County, Wisconsin, United States
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Region: Sebastian County, Arkansas, United States
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