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Royal Spurwing Skipper

Antigonus corrosus

Photo by LaurenZarate
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Field Notes

Description:

Brown banded Skipper. It is also called the Small Spurwing and has a distribution from southeast Mexico to Panama. The second picture is of a different individual photographed on 20 August 2013 in the same place. Family Hesperiidae.

Habitat:

Heavy shrubbery along the highway between San Cristobal de Las Casas and Tuxtla Gutierrez, km 11.5, 865 meters.

Reference Links:

Antigonus corrosus (pinned specimens)

Species ID Suggestions

Royal Spurwing or Small Spurwing

Antigonus corrosus

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Comments (1)
LaurenZarate
Thank you very much bayucca for the identification :)

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