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Southern Skipperling

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28.3527, -80.7385

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Description:

Exceedingly small and very fast...

Species ID Suggestions

Southern Skipperling

Copaeodes minima

Comments (7)

Matthew please update...!!
Nance I checked your comment later you are perfect..!!
Kirsten you are at point... You must saw this butterfly...must be perfect...!!! Deleting my suggestion...!!
The white stripe on the underside of the hind wing leads me to believe this is a Southern Skipperling (Copaeodes minima). Matthew, was this butterfly almost shockingly small?
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/6980248 I caught this one in the same area and IDed it as southern skipperling.
Hahaha...how much you follow this Skipper butterfly... They are really so quick...
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PublishedAugust 23, 2011

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