Spike-banded skipper

Wing span:

Identification: The body and wings are dark brown. The forewings have a central oblique white band and the hindwings have a white fringe along the outer margin (starting from the apex and extending to the end of the termen), and is broader in width on the underside than the upperside. The underside of the hindwings also has two black bands in the discal and postdiscal sections.

Variation:

Behaviour:

Habitat:

Larval food plantDesmodium adscendens, Calopogonium mucunoides (Warren et al., 2013)

Adult food: Flower nectar of species such as Stachytarpheta

Reported from: Guyana (specific locality not available)