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Genus

Pyrgus 

checkered-skippers

Pyrgus communisPyrgus communis
Common checkered skipper
male
A 2019 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Li et al., Genomes of skipper butterflies reveal extensive convergence of wing patterns) moved some of the North American Pyrgus species into the genus Burnsius, including all of those found in Florida.

Species of the Pyrgus genus in the Wild Florida Photo database:

The genus Pyrgus is a member of the Hesperiidae - Skippers family.

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