Wallengrenia otho
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Wallengrenia otho, the southern broken dash, is a butterfly of the Hesperiidae family. It is found from eastern Texas and the southeastern United States, south through the West Indies and Central America to Argentina. Strays can be found as far north as central Missouri, northern Kentucky and Delaware.
The wingspan is 24–35 mm. Adults are on wing from April to October in two generations (sometimes a partial third) in most of North America. In peninsular Florida and southern Texas, adults are on wing all year round.
The larvae feed on Paspalum species and Stenotaphrum secundatum. Adults feed on the nectar from flowers including pickerelweed, selfheal and sweet pepperbush.
Subspecies
- Wallengrenia otho otho (Georgia to Mexico and Brazil (Amazonas))
- Wallengrenia otho drury (Latreille, [1824]) (Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico)
- Wallengrenia otho clavus (Erichson, 1848) (Mexico to Brazil, Trinidad, Guyana, Surinam, Venezuela)
- Wallengrenia otho misera (Lucas, 1857) (Cuba, Bahamas, Honduras)
- Wallengrenia otho ophites (Mabille, 1878) (Antilles, Dominica)
- Wallengrenia otho vesuria (Plötz, 1882) (Jamaica)
- Wallengrenia otho sapuca Evans, 1955 (Paraguay)
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Categories:
- Hesperiini
- Butterflies of Central America
- Butterflies of the Caribbean
- Butterflies of North America
- Butterflies of South America
- Butterflies of Cuba
- Butterflies of Mexico
- Butterflies of the United States
- Lepidoptera of Argentina
- Lepidoptera of Brazil
- Lepidoptera of Jamaica
- Insects of Antigua and Barbuda
- Insects of Belize
- Insects of Puerto Rico
- Fauna of the Southeastern United States
- Insects described in 1797
- Hesperiini stubs