I'm certainly not positive. Habitat - along the Gila River, nectaring on flowers on what amounted to a sandbar. Please let me know if you think differently and why. Thank you.
2nd Colorado record! First found in 1995 by Ray Stanford right on the CO/OK border on nearby Baca Co. Rd. 8. I saw at least 3 individuals near perennial springs in the "broken country" just 2.4 miles north of the OK line.
Esta es una mariposa de las llamadas "Skippers", yo les digo brincadores, y aunque parezcan palomillas, son mariposas verdaderas, por cierto muy ficiles de identificar, a ver que me dice Lily...
This is one unidentifyed skipper in the Festival
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Tanana Arctic
see "Warren, A. D., Nakahara, S., Lukhtanov, V. A., Daly, K. M., Ferris, C. D., Grishin, N. V., Cesanek, M., & Pelham, J. P. (2016). A new species of Oeneis from Alaska, United States, with notes on the Oeneis chryxus complex (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae: Satyrinae). Journal of Research on the Lepidoptera 49(1): 1-20."
Silver-spotted Skipper