Sachem

Atalopedes campestris or Sachem is a small skipper. It is just over 1 inch long and is orange and brown. Females are slightly larger and have paler markings on the wings. Life cycle, host plants are various grasses, including lawn grasses. The caterpillar is dark green and black. It has multiple broods per year.

Males of Sachem are orange with dark smudges on the forewing underside forming a sort of chevron pattern and an isolated dark smudge in the center near the bottom edge of the wing.

Females of Sachem are duller brown and usually have a weak chevron of paler spots on the hindwing. This skipper is common from the southern United States to Brazil. It often ranges north to the northern states.

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