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Butterflies of Zihuatanejo

SUPERFAMILY PAPILIONOIDEA

Laviana White-Skipper

Heliopetes laviana

Heliopetes laviana, the Laviana white-skipper or Laviana skipper, is a butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. It is found from Argentina through Central America and northern Mexico to southern Texas. The habitat consists of edges of brushy areas, trails, roadsides, open woodland, thorn forest and streamsides. Adults feed on flower nectar. The larvae feed on the leaves of various mallows, including Sphaeralcea, Sida and Abutilon species. They live in a nest of folded leaves.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebis_agarithe which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

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