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Grizzled Skipper

Spialia sp.

Description:

Very small skipper with white-dotted black wings

Habitat:

Near a water puddle

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Grizzled Skipper
Spialia sp. Spialia


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1 Comment

bayucca
bayucca 10 years ago

Nuwan, I have the same IDea :-)...
But I think there are too many species candidates around to get closer than the genus. I knew it from the European ones, almost impossible to ID without the native specimens. Sometimes there is 1 single spot at a special location that makes the ID...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rsa_nature/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spialia_dio...

dotun55
Spotted by
dotun55

Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria

Spotted on Mar 8, 2014
Submitted on Mar 10, 2014

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