- Thorybes pylades
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Northern Cloudywing Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Hesperiidae Genus: Thorybes Species: T. pylades Binomial name Thorybes pylades
Scudder (1870)The Northern Cloudywing is a species of the Hesperiidae family.[1]
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Description
The wingspan of the T. pylades is between 32 and 47 mm long. Both male and female have completely dark brown wings except for the small triangular clear spots.
Distribution
It is seen between Nova Scotia west across Canada south into California and across the rest of the United States. Its habitat consist of open boreal woodlands and on forest edges.
Life cycle
Adults lay eggs singly under the leaves of their host plants the caterpillars then will eat till they are ready to pupate at which point they will roll themselves into the host plants leafs. They fly between May and July where there is only one brood, but in the south they fly from March and September where there are two broods.
Larval food
Nectaring flowers
- Apocynum
- Prunella
- Securigera varia
- Lonicera japonica
- Thistle
- Asclepias syriaca
- Dianthus armeria
- Verbena
References
- ^ "Species Thorybes pylades - Northern Cloudywing". 2005. http://bugguide.net/node/view/12861. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
- "Northern Cloudywing". Butterflies and Moths of North America. http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species?l=1948. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
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