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Tai LA
14-Jan-2017, 05:06 PM
This is a special request to Dr Seow if you can lend your expertise to help me identify these Skippers from a land far across the Pacific, i.e., Austin, Texas, where I was vacationing. I hope your expertise extend beyond our shores. For your assistance I humbly say a big, "Thank you!"

1. https://s29.postimg.org/ww7s06vyb/IMG_8333r.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/ww7s06vyb/)

2. https://s29.postimg.org/i1j6m0mdf/IMG_8678r.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/i1j6m0mdf/)

3. https://s29.postimg.org/amyg7dpvn/P1160152r.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/amyg7dpvn/)

4. https://s30.postimg.org/dc8l4rlcd/IMG_8788.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/dc8l4rlcd/)

5. https://s30.postimg.org/7qm60pknh/IMG_9383.jpg (https://postimg.org/image/7qm60pknh/)
Psyche
14-Jan-2017, 06:28 PM
1. Clouded Skipper. Lerema accius.
This match pix 3 ,the male on the right ie nos & position of spots; 4 white costal dashes; redbrown shading ; grey FW marginal shading from apex down.
http://www.carolinanature.com/butterflies/cloudedskipper.html

2. Fiery Skipper. Hylephila phyleus.
Pix 8 below.
http://www.carolinanature.com/butterflies/txleps7.html


3.Cassus Roadside Skipper. Amblyscirtes cassus.
Matching FW spots. dark spots after the white spots; orange brown shadings.
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/sites/default/files/imagecache/gallery_for_colorbox/species_images/Cassus_Roadside-Skipper_2009-07-07_02crop_Gary_Jue.jpg
http://www.butterfliesandmoths.org/species/Amblyscirtes-cassus

4. Hylephila phyleus.
http://www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/phpBB/gallery/images/upload/6161ef0a1aa54c825acde68e24cb5bb2.jpg

5. Uncertain but likely to be this.
Julia's Skipper. Nastra julia.
http://butterfliesofamerica.com/images/Hesperiidae/Hesperiinae/Nastra_julia/Nastra_julia_Santa_Ana_NWR_TX_22-X-03__259.jpg
http://www.kimandmikeontheroad.com/images/Butterflies/Hesperiidae/Hesperiinae/Nastra_julia/Nastra_julia_Yecora_SON_MX_21-IX-05.jpg

TL Seow: Cheers.
Tai LA
16-Jan-2017, 06:44 AM
Thank you so much Dr Seow! Wishing you a Chinese Happy New Year!
Psyche
16-Jan-2017, 08:04 PM
Happy New Year, too.

TL Seow:Cheers.