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Skipper butterfly

Family Hesperiidae

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Description:

This butterfly sits with front wings up, and the rear ones flat. It looks like a delta wing airplane!!!

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
KarenL
You are right - I hadn't thought of that before :) It's a Skipper (Hesperiidae) but I'm not familiar with the species.

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Butterflies & Moths of the World
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Borboletas do Parana - Butterflies from Parana, Brazil
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PublishedOctober 26, 2011

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