Species: Oarisma garita
Garita Skipperling
Species
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mandibulata
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hesperiidae
Genus
Oarisma
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
hespérie La Garita
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Invertebrates - Insects - Butterflies and Moths - Butterflies and Skippers
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Mandibulata - Insecta - Lepidoptera - Hesperiidae - Oarisma - Extremely variable and has been confused with O. POWESHEIK and O. EDWARDSII.
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
Butterfly, Hesperiidae.
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2009-08-18
Global Status Last Changed
1998-09-01
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
FG - 20,000-2,500,000 square km (about 8000-1,000,000 square miles) - FG - Northern and western Great Plains and Rocky Mountains; ranges from Washington and British Columbia east to Manitoba and Saskatchewan south through Idaho, Montana & the Dakotas to New Mexico & Arizona & into Mexico (from Howe, 1975).
Global Range Code
FG
Global Range Description
20,000-2,500,000 square km (about 8000-1,000,000 square miles)