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Turk's-cap White-Skipper
Heliopetes macaira
Heliopetes macaira, the Turk's-cap white-skipper , is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found from southern Texas in North America, south through Central America to Paraguay.
The wingspan is 32–35 mm. There are several generations with adults on wing from April to November in southern Texas.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 148516.