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Zabulon Skipper

🇳🇱 Poanes zabulon ·Lon zabulon

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Zabulon Skipper, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Bill Bouton · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Zabulon skipper ( Poanes zabulon ) (sometimes called the southern dimorphic skipper ) is a North American butterfly first described by the French naturalists Jean Baptiste Boisduval and John Eatton Le Conte from the state of Georgia, United States.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 52,323iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 52,323 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
Zabulon Skipper
Nederlands
Poanes zabulon
scientific name
Lon zabulon
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Hesperiidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
52,323
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Hesperiidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1081329, Wikidata Q97369546, GBIF 11654707, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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