Bug FAQPahaska Skipper
Hesperia pahaska · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Hesperiidae
The Pahaska skipper is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Hesperia pahaska, the Pahaska skipper, belongs to the butterfly family Hesperiidae.
Source: Wikipedia
Size
Its wingspan measures about 28 to 33 mm.
Source: Wikipedia
What it eats
The caterpillars feed on blue grama, fluff grass, other Poaceae species, and Tridens pulchella.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It is found in a narrow strip of North America from Texas to North Dakota, extending just into southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 12 of 51 states and DC. Most records: New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, California, Texas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Hesperiidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hesperia_pahaska
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.