Bug FAQTaxiles Skipper
Lon taxiles · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Hesperiidae
The taxiles skipper is a grass-skipper butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It occurs in Central America and North America.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
Lon taxiles, known as the taxiles skipper, belongs to the grass skipper group of the Hesperiidae family.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it lives
This species is found across Central America and North America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
It is native to North America and also occurs in Central America.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 15 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Nebraska, Idaho, South Dakota, Wyoming.
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
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Hesperiidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_taxiles
Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · Wikipedia
Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.