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Two-banded Checkered-Skipper
Pyrgus ruralis
Pyrgus ruralis, the two-banded checkered skipper, is a species of skipper butterfly (family Hesperiidae). Subspecies lagunae is known by the common name Laguna Mountains skipper. This subspecies is on the endangered species list. It is found in North America from the mountains of British Columbia and Alberta to southern California, Arizona and New Mexico.
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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 83543.