Green Skipper

Hesperia viridis · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Hesperiidae

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Green Skipper
Photo: Joseph Aubert, CC BY

The green skipper, Hesperia viridis, is a grass-skipper butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It lives in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Hesperia viridis, the green skipper, belongs to the grass-skipper group of butterflies.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

The green skipper is found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its range includes North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 11 of 51 states and DC. Most records: New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, California, Arizona, Kansas, Montana.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Green Skipper photo 3
Photo: Joseph Aubert, CC BY
Green Skipper photo 4
Photo: Craig Hensley, CC BY
Green Skipper photo 5
Photo: Tom Field, CC BY
Green Skipper photo 6
Photo: Jay Pruett, CC BY

Same family (Hesperiidae)

Fiery SkipperFiery SkipperHylephila phyleusDamages trees, gardens or cropsSilver-spotted SkipperSilver-spotted SkipperEpargyreus clarusDamages trees, gardens or cropsHuron SkipperHuron SkipperAtalopedes huronLarge SkipperLarge SkipperOchlodes sylvanusZabulon SkipperZabulon SkipperLon zabulonPeck's SkipperPeck's SkipperPolites peckius

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperia_viridis

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-24 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-24.

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