''Hesperia ottoe'', the Ottoe skipper, is a

butterfly Butterflies are insects in the macrolepidopteran clade Rhopalocera from the order Lepidoptera, which also includes moths. Adult butterflies have large, often brightly coloured wings, and conspicuous, fluttering flight. The group comprise ...

of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the central U.S. but has been recorded in Canada only in a small area of southern

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.Ottoe Skipper
Butterflies of Canada The

wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan o ...

is 29–35 mm. The flight period is from mid-June to early August. The larvae feed on Poaceae species, '' Leptoloma cognatum'', little bluestem (''

Andropogon scoparius ''Schizachyrium scoparium'', commonly known as little bluestem or beard grass, is a species of North American prairie grass native to most of the contiguous United States (except California, Nevada, and Oregon) as well as a small area north of ...

''), and, in Minnesota, on the flowers of purple coneflower (''

Echinacea angustifolia ''Echinacea angustifolia'', the narrow-leaved purple coneflower or blacksamson echinacea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to North America, where it is widespread across much of the Great Plains of central ...

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Ottoe Skipper
Butterflies and Moths of North America Hesperia (butterfly) Butterflies described in 1866 Butterflies of North America {{hesperiinae-stub