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Long-tailed Skipper Butterfly

Urbanus proteus

Photo by James McNair
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

The long-tailed skipper is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina and north into the southern part of the United States of America. It cannot live in areas with prolonged frost

Habitat:

Wetlands

Reference Links:

Long-tailed skipper

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PublishedNovember 10, 2015

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