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Paintbrush swift

Baoris oceia

Description:

A skipper or skipper butterfly is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. However, skippers have the antennae clubs hooked backward like a crochet hook, while the typical butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae, and moth-butterflies have feathered or pectinate (comb-shaped) antennae similar to "moths". Skippers also have generally stockier bodies and larger compound eyes than the other two groups, with stronger wing muscles in the plump thorax, in this resembling many "moths" more than the other two butterfly lineages do. But unlike for example the Arctiidae, their wings are usually small in proportion to their bodies. Some have larger wings, but only rarely as large in proportion to the body as in other butterflies. When at rest, skippers keep their wings usually angled upwards or spread out, and only rarely fold them up completely.

Habitat:

Neotropical in this case.

1 Species ID Suggestions

Rice Paintbrush Swift
Baoris oceia Baoris or Caltoris??


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1 Comment

The MnMs
The MnMs 10 years ago

Many thanks for the ID, Agnes! ;-)

The MnMs
Spotted by
The MnMs

Negros Oriental, Philippines

Spotted on Sep 30, 2012
Submitted on Jul 3, 2013

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