Paratrytone snowi
Species of butterfly
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Paratrytone snowi, or Snow's skipper, is a species of grass skipper in the butterfly family Hesperiidae.[2][3]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Paratrytone |
| Species: | P. snowi |
| Binomial name | |
| Paratrytone snowi (W. H. Edwards, 1877) | |
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Description
The upperside of the wings are dark brown. The forewing has several clear spots, with males having a narrow black stigma. The underside is reddish brown with a black forewing base, in which the spots from the upperside are repeated below. The wingspan ranges from 1 1/8 to 1 3/8 inches (2.9 to 3.5 centimeters).[4]
