Hobomok skipper

(Lon hobomok)

Conservation Status
Hobomok skipper
Photo by Babette Kis
  IUCN Red List

not listed

 
  NatureServe

N5 - Secure

S5 - Secure

 
  Minnesota

not listed

 
           
           
           
           
           
 
Description
 
 

The upper side of the forewing is orange with a broad dark border on the outer margin and leading edge (costal margin). The black cell bar is relatively low.

 
     
 

Size

 
 

 

 
     
 

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Habitat
 
 

Edges of damp woods, bogs, and streams

 
     
 
Biology
 
 

Season

 
 

One brood from late May to early July

 
     
 

Behavior

 
 

 

 
     
 

Life Cycle

 
 

 

 
     
 

Larva Hosts

 
 

Grasses, including panic grass and bluegrass.

 
     
 

Adult Food

 
 

Nectar from flowers including common milkweed, henbit deadnettle, common viper’s bugloss, and blackberry.

 
     
 
Distribution
 
 

Distribution Map

 

Sources

4, 7, 21, 24, 27, 29, 30, 71, 75, 82.

 
  10/6/2022      
         
 

Occurrence

 
 

Common, sometimes abundant

 
         
 
Taxonomy
 
 

Order

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths)  
 

Superfamily

Papilionoidea (butterflies)  
 

Family

Hesperiidae (skippers)  
 

Subfamily

Hesperiinae (grass skippers)  
  Tribe Hesperiini  
  Subtribe Hesperiina  
 

Genus

Lon  
       
 

Superfamily
Skippers have traditionally been placed in their own superfamily Hesperioidea because of their morphological similarity. Recent phylogenetic analysis (Kawahara and Breinholt [2014]) suggests that they share the same common ancestor as other butterfly families, and thus belong in the superfamily, Papilionoidea.

Genus
A recent genetic sequencing and morphological analysis of the family Hesperiidae (Cong and Zhang et al, 2019) resulted in the creation of two new tribes, two new subtribes, and fifty new genera. Hobomok skipper, formerly Poanes hobomok and eight other “ordinary terrestrial species” were placed in the new genus Lon. Most online sources continue to use the name Poanes hobomok.

 
       
 

Subordinate Taxa

 
 

Hobomok skipper (Lon hobomok hobomok)

Hobomok skipper (Lon hobomok monofacies)

Hobomok skipper (Lon hobomok wetona)

 
       
 

Synonyms

 
 

Poanes hobomok

 
       
 

Common Names

 
 

Hobomok skipper

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
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Babette Kis

 
 

Poanes hobomok Hobomok skipper

Poanes hobomok, Hobomok skipper, on grass at Barnes Prairie, Racine Co., Wisconsin. Photos taken May 31, 2021.

  Hobomok skipper  
           
 

It's often found in grassy areas, including old fields, roadsides, and in my photos, a tallgrass prairie.

  Hobomok skipper  
 

Scott Leddy

 
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Wing upper side

 
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Wing underside

 
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Hobomok Skippers
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Lon hobomok

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Lon hobomok (Hobomok Skipper)
Allen Chartier
  Lon hobomok (Hobomok Skipper)  

 

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  Hobomok Skipper Pollinating Milk Thistle - June 15, 2013
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Published on Jun 17, 2013

Hobomok Skipper (Lon hobomok) Pollinating Milk Thistle (Silybum marianum), Butterfly Garden, Gagnon Wildlife Habitat, Pottersville, Somerset, Massachusetts, Saturday morning, June 15, 2013, 11:12 AM - Canon PowerShot SX50 HS MVI_11326; 1:31 min.

 

 

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  Babette Kis
6/7/2021

Location: Barnes Prairie, Racine Co., WI

Poanes hobomok, Hobomok skipper, on grass at Barnes Prairie, Racine Co., Wisconsin. Photos taken May 31, 2021.

It's often found in grassy areas, including old fields, roadsides, and in my photos, a tallgrass prairie.

Hobomok skipper  
  Luciearl
6/2/2018

Location: Cass County

Hobomok skipper  
  Crystal Boyd
6/10 and 6/11/2013

Location: Uncas Dunes SNA

 
           
 
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