Oarisma garita

Garita Skipperling
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Oarisma
Species:	O. garita
Binomial name
Oarisma garita (Reakirt, 1866)
Subspecies
O. g. garita O. g. calega (Godman, 1900)
Synonyms
Hesperia garita[1]

The Garita Skipperling, Western Skipperling, or Garita Skipper (Oarisma garita) is a North American butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (skippers), subfamily Hesperiinae (grass skippers). This skipper ranges southeastern Manitoba to British Columbia and south through the American Midwest as far south as Mexico.^[2]

Description

Coloured orange brown on the upperside. The underside of the forewings are also orange but hindwings are dark grey with orange inner margins and grey white veins.^[2]

Wingspan is from 20 to 25 mm.^[2]

Behaviour

Flies from mid-June through mid-July^[2] Larvae feed on Sitanion, Blephanoneuron, Stipa, Poa, and Bouteloua.^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Oarisma, funet.fi
2. ^ ^{a b c d} Garita Skipperling, Butterflies of Canada