Pyrgus Common or White Checkered Skipper: Hesperiidae (Skippers) » Pyrginae (Spread-wing Skippers) » Pyrgini - det roycohutta

swreg 06.04.2021

Probably a White C-S, but...

White and Common C-S cannot be separated visually in the field.

White C-S has been expanding its range in the east (and probably replacing Common in many areas).

So may be better to ID them as a complex.

 

White C-S was verified by dissection as far north as Tennessee back in 2008.

See 2008 Tennessee: www.butterfliesandmoths.org/sighting_details/461635

 

Alabama Butterfly Atlas has combined their data for the complex:

alabama.butterflyatlas.usf.edu/species/details/131/common...

Done