northern cloudywing

(Thorybes pylades)

Conservation Status
northern cloudywing
  IUCN Red List

not listed

     
  NatureServe

N5 - Secure

SNR - Unranked

     
  Minnesota

not listed

     
           
           
 
Description
 
 

 

 
     
 

Size

 
 

 

 
     
 

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Habitat
 
 

Open or scrubby boreal forest and forest openings and edges

 
     
 
Biology
 
 

Season

 
 

One brood from late May to mid-July

 
     
 

Behavior

 
 

 

 
     
 

Life Cycle

 
 

 

 
     
 

Larva Hosts

 
 

Legumes (Fabaceae)

 
     
 

Adult Food

 
 

Nectar from blue, purple, pink, or white flowers, but not yellow flowers.

 
     
 
Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

Sources

7, 20, 21, 29, 71.

 
  2/23/2012      
         
 

Occurrence

 
 

 

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
 

Order

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)  
 

Superfamily

Papilionoidea (butterflies)  
 

Family

Hesperiidae (skippers)  
 

Subfamily

Eudaminae  
 

Genus

Thorybes  
       
 

Skippers have traditionally been placed in their own superfamily Hesperioidea because of their morphological similarity. Recent phylogenetic analysis (Kawahara and Breinholt [2014]) suggests that they share the same common ancestor as other butterfly families, and thus belong in the superfamily, Papilionoidea.

 
       
 

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Common Names

 
 

northern cloudywing

 
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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