Phocides pigmalion
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Phocides |
| Species: | P. pigmalion
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| Binomial name | |
| Phocides pigmalion (Cramer, [1779])
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Phocides pigmalion, the mangrove skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the United States from coast to coast in peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys, south through the West Indies and Mexico to Argentina. Strays may be found up to coastal South Carolina.
The wingspan is 48–70 mm. Adults are on the wing from November to August in southern Florida.
The larvae feed on Rhizophora mangle species. Adults feed on nectar of various plants, including mangrove, shepherd's needle, citrus, and bougainvillaea flowers.
Subspecies
[edit]- Phocides pigmalion pigmalion (Surinam, Colombia, Peru, Brazil)
- Phocides pigmalion bicolora (Haiti)
- Phocides pigmalion batabano (Cuba, tropical America)
- Phocides pigmalion okeechobee (Florida)
- Pocides pigmalion hewitsonius (Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia)
- Phocides pigmalion batabanoides (Bahamas)
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Categories:
- Eudaminae
- Butterflies described in 1779
- Hesperiidae of South America
- Taxa named by Pieter Cramer
- Butterflies of Central America
- Butterflies of Cuba
- Lepidoptera of the United States
- Lepidoptera of Mexico
- Lepidoptera of Colombia
- Lepidoptera of Peru
- Lepidoptera of Brazil
- Lepidoptera of Bolivia
- Fauna of the Bahamas
- Lepidoptera of Argentina
- Hesperiidae stubs