''Chlosyne acastus'', the sagebrush checkerspot, is a

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

of the family Nymphalidae that is found in North America. They range from western United States east to

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and north to southern

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.Jim P. Brock, Kenn Kaufman (2003) ''Kaufman Field Guide to Butterflies of North America''. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. .

Description

The adult may be often confused with the

northern checkerspot ''Chlosyne palla'', the northern checkerspot, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae that is found in North America. They range from southern British Columbia to Alberta, south to California, Utah, and Colorado, excluding Nevada.Jim P. Brock, ...

(''C. palla'') and

Hoffmann's checkerspot ''Chlosyne hoffmanni'', or Hoffmann's checkerspot, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae that is found in western North America. They range from the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Mountains in the U.S. to Manning Park in British Columbia.Jim P. ...

(''C. hoffmanni''). The adult's wingspan is .

Life cycle

There is one flight that occurs between May to early September in Canada. The caterpillar of this species feeds on rabbit-brush (''

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'') and desert-aster ('' Machaeranthera'' species).Sagebrush Checkerspot
Butterflies of Canada

Subspecies

*''C. a. neumoegeni'' (Skinner, 1895) *''C. a. sabina'' (Wright, 1905)

References

External links

Sagebrush checkerspot
BugGuide {{Taxonbar, from=Q2964165 Butterflies of North America acastus Taxa named by William Henry Edwards Butterflies described in 1874