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Southern Marbled Skipper Butterfly

Carcharodus baeticus

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Field Notes

Description:

Body about 1 cm long, flying about and settled in the reeds, taken at midday on a very hot day.

Habitat:

Coastal marshes

Species ID Suggestions

Southern Marbled Skipper

Carcharodus baeticus

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Comments (5)
injica
Good job bayucca, this was tricky ;)
Malcolm Wilton-Jones
OK, I hadn't realised a Skipper was a Butterfly, its on the last page of my book before the moths start but it only says Tufted Marbled Skipper and when I turned the page over its all moths. That shows how much I (don't) know about Butterflies and moths! I don't have anything on Southern Marbled Skipper so will look on the internet.
bayucca
Hesperiidae, Carcharodus sp. and most probably Carcharodus baeticus. Please, verify!!
ForestDragon
Hi Malcom, this looks like a very worn Skipper to me, rather than a moth. Perhaps Genus Carcharodus.

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PublishedJuly 23, 2013

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