Achlyodes mithridates
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Family: | Hesperiidae
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Species: | A. mithridates
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Achlyodes mithridates (Fabricius, 1793)
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Achlyodes mithridates, the sickle-winged skipper or Jung's dusky wing, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Argentina, north through tropical America and the West Indies to southern Texas. A regular stray north to central Texas, rarely to Arkansas and Kansas.
![Sickle-winged skipper (Eantis tamenund) male.jpg](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Sickle-winged_skipper_%28Eantis_tamenund%29_male.jpg/200px-Sickle-winged_skipper_%28Eantis_tamenund%29_male.jpg)
The wingspan is 35–45 mm. Adults are on wing all year round in most of its range.
The larvae feed on leaves of Rutaceae species, including Zanthoxylum fagara in Texas and in tropical America. Adults feed on flower nectar.
Subspecies[]
Note that several of these subspecies are considered species by some authors.
- Achlyodes mithridates mithridates (Jamaica)
- Achlyodes mithridates papinianus (Trinidad, Cuba)
- Achlyodes mithridates tamenund (Mexico, Texas)
- Achlyodes mithridates thraso (Peru, Argentina, Greater Antilles, southern Mexico to Paraguay, Ecuador, Brazil)
- Achlyodes mithridates minor (Puerto Rico, Dominica)
- Achlyodes mithridates sagra (Haiti)
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- Pyrginae
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