Desert Checkered-Skipper
Pyrgus philetas
[b]Description[b/] 7/8-1 1/8" (22-28 mm). Wings above blackish or grayish-brown, checkered with uniform pattern of many
white spots with some bluish-gray basal hair. Marginal spots on HW conspicuous above, with clear white or mildly checkered fringes. Below, dull gray or quite silvery, with vague bands or slightly dark HW.
Similar Species Other pale arid-land species larger and more strongly marked beneath.
Life Cycle Unrecorded.
Flight Several successive broods; February-December in Texas.
Habitat Arroyos, valley bottomlands, and desert waterhole.
Range S. New Mexico and Arizona, central Texas to Baja California and Mexico.
Discussion This silvery skipper whirrs up and down small gullies in the desert Southwest.
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