Dorantes Longtail (Urbanus dorantes)

NE Florida...


http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/almoagain/Bugs/DorantesLongtailUrbanusdorantes.jpg

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/almoagain/Bugs/DorantesLongtail-Urbanusdorantes.jpg

Dude that moth? is bang'in looking !

Dude that moth? is bang'in looking !


Thanks Paul!

It's a skipper.

AH, we get alot of silver-spotted skippers here :)

It's a skipper.

Interesting, all the skipper species here in the UK hold their wings like K that.
Hindwings flas, forewings at 45 degrees to horizontal.

This skipper is different it seems, as all the wings are at 45 degrees.

I am not a bug guy, though they do have wings usually...HMMMMM ;)

Is this a silver spotted skipper by any chance? My birding buddy always talks about them on his butterfly bush .

I am not a bug guy, though they do have wings usually...HMMMMM ;)

Is this a silver spotted skipper by any chance? My birding buddy always talks about them on his butterfly bush .


I'm not really sure what you have there, sorta the LBJ of the butterfly world, but it ain't the Silver-spotted Skipper, (Epargyreus clarus)...

http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/bflyusa/sc/607.htm

LBJ or not.... It pretty perty with silver spots ;)

IS THIS A SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER THEN?

I sent there first image to 2 friends for ID. If that fails, my cousin will ID it ;)

LBJ or not.... It pretty perty with silver spots ;)

IS THIS A SILVER SPOTTED SKIPPER THEN?

I sent there first image to 2 friends for ID. If that fails, my cousin will ID it ;)


Well if you had looked at the link I put up you would have seen that this indeed is a Silver-Spotted Skipper... :p

I did look at the link skippy :) I figure if 3 species of crow look alike, why not 2 skippers?

Is my flutterby a Aphrodite Fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite) maybe? I think so(no a great spangled due to missing the forewing spot)

Here's a California species that I shot last year. Not sure which species it is, so perhaps someone can help to identify it.

Now that is more like our skippers :)
Same orange/brown colours, same habit with the hindwings flat and forewings at 45 degrees.

Can't identify US species though, worry.

Is my flutterby a Aphrodite Fritillary (Speyeria aphrodite) maybe? I think so(no a great spangled due to missing the forewing spot)


Speyeria aphrodite, is what I was leaning toward, but I was tired when I looked it up. I am confidant in saying it is now.

Here's a California species that I shot last year. Not sure which species it is, so perhaps someone can help to identify it.


Looks like you have a, Fiery Skipper (Hylephila phyleus).

Cool image Ray!