Moon-marked Skipper

Atrytonopsis lunus · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Hesperiidae

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Moon-marked Skipper
Photo: Mike Ostrowski, CC BY-SA

The moon-marked skipper belongs to the grass-skipper group of butterflies. It is found in Central America. It also occurs in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

The moon-marked skipper is a grass-skipper butterfly.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

It lives in Central America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

It is also found in North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 2 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Arizona, New Mexico.

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

Source: GBIF

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Moon-marked Skipper photo 2
Photo: Dan Vickers, CC BY
Moon-marked Skipper photo 3
Photo: Shawn Taylor, 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/Atrytonopsis_lunus

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Text written 2026-10-27 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-27.

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