#3079 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Huron Skipper

Atalopedes huron

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © cwwood · CC BY-SA 4.0
2. © Ale Türkmen (The Butterfly Project Mexico) · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © C. A. Ivy · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Robert Webster · CC BY-SA 4.0
5. © C. A. Ivy · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ignacio A. Rodríguez · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © C. A. Ivy · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

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.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 87,288iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).