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skipper butterfly
Hesperiidae
-3.29115, 119.864
Field Notes
Description:
A brown skipper with a clear spots set on the wings (almost 5).
skippers have the antennae clubs hooked backward like a crochet hook, while the typical butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae, and moth-butterflies have feathered or pectinate (comb-shaped) antennae similar to moths.
Skippers also have generally stockier bodies and larger compound eyes than the other two groups, with stronger wing muscles in the plump thorax, in this resembling many moths more than the other two butterfly lineages do.
Habitat:
Spotted at Tana Toraja area - Sulawesi
Notes:
Being diurnal, they are generally called as butterflies although they are placed in a superfamily Hesperioidea which is a sister-group of the Papilionoidea. They are so named for their quick, darting flight habits. Most have the antenna tip modified into a narrow hook like projection. More than 3500 species of skippers are recognized, and they occur worldwide, but with the greatest diversity in the Neotropical regions of Central and South America.
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