Atalopedes huron

Atalopedes huron is a small grass skipper butterfly. Formerly treated as a subspecies of Atalopedes campestris, it was upgraded to full species status by Zhang et al. in 2022.

Description

Wingspan is. The males are tawny orange with wide dark borders with prominent wide black stigma on the dorsal view of their wings. Hingwings have dark veins. Females are dark with orange forewing edges; two glassy spots near the center and smaller spots near tip. Ventrally the wings are yellow brown with faint hindwing chevron patterns that frame a yellow brown spot in middle of the hindwing bottom edge. Females are muddier and more olive with the chevron pattern more pronounced.

Range

Resident in southeastern United States, west to Colorado and SE Arizona, and south all the way to South America. Stages a late summer/fall migration every year, rarely reaching as far as southern Canada.