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62 Records
Status
Some useful notes from Rick Cheicante, who has a record from each of our three western counties for 2012 (new county record for Garrett): "All in the first half of June... The Hoary Edge is becoming exceeding rare in Maryland, as if they weren't tough to get already. If you haven't seen these before, there is no mistaking them with Silver-spotted Skipper. Of course, if you're looking at both up close, well they would be obviously different. But even in a glimpse, there is nothing similar about these two species. The habitat size, location, flight and overall base color are quite different. For starters, the Hoary Edge is slightly, but notably smaller. Where the Silver-spotted Skipper has a tawny/orange-gold appearance in flight, the Hoary Edge is dark chocolate brown. While the Silver-spotted Skipper nectars or alights tamely from waist-high and up as we're accustomed, the Hoary Edge is a more skittish ground dweller preferring the damp soil along creek borders. When the Silver-spotted Skipper flits to a new location, the Hoary Edge scrambles erratically eventually settling into a 'bouncing' flight across the vegetation and exposed areas of a stream bank. At the chance of an unsuspecting glimpse of a Hoary Edge, one may think a duskywing has just been spooked. The difference: duskywings usually land quickly again. The Hoary Edge can be approached with patience, but if it goes, the hopeful observer may be in trouble. I swear, you can lose this guy in a blink. This has been my experiences, and for that, I hoped to maybe create a helpful search image."
Relationships
Host plants include various species in the Pea Family.
Seasonality Snapshot
Source: Wikipedia
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Hesperiidae |
Genus: | Cecropterus |
Species: | C. lyciades
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Binomial name | |
Cecropterus lyciades (Geyer, 1832)
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Cecropterus lyciades, the hoary edge, is a species of skipper in the family Hesperiidae which can be seen throughout the eastern United States in open woodlands, deciduous mixed forest and sandy areas. Cecropterus lyacides is an uncommon butterfly that is named after an underlying whitish patch on the hindwing patch.
Description
[edit]The wingspan of the hoary edge is 4.5 to 4.9 cm. This butterfly is very similar in appearance to Epargyreus clarus but is smaller and has a longer strip of diffused silver on its wing.
Life cycle
[edit]There are two broods each year in April and September.
Larval foods
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Cecropterus lyciades Hoary Edge". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
- "Species Achalarus lyciades - Hoary Edge". Iowa State University Entomology. Retrieved 2008-10-11.
- Scott, James A. (1992). The Butterflies of North America: A Natural History and Field Guide. Stanford University Press. ISBN 0-8047-2013-4.
- Kaufman, Kenn; Brock, Jim P. (2003). Butterflies of North America (Kaufman Focus Guides). Houghton Mifflin Co. ISBN 0-618-15312-8.
- Glassberg, Jeffrey (1999). Butterflies Through Binoculars: The East. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-510668-7.
- Jinhui Shen, Qian Cong, Dominika Borek, Zbyszek Otwinowski and Nick V. Grishin*, “Complete Genome of Achalarus lyciades, The First Representative of the Eudaminae Subfamily of Skippers”, Current Genomics (2017) 18: 366.