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Green Grass-Dart Skipper
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| Photo Information |
Copyright: Atanu Chanda (atanuchanda)
![Silver Note Writer [C: 3 W: 0 N: 39]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/n-n-s.gif) (152) |
| Genre: Animals |
| Medium: Color |
| Date Taken: 2009-01-18 |
| Categories: Insects |
| Camera: Kodak DX6490 |
| Photo Version: Original Version |
| Date Submitted: 2009-01-28 1:48 |
| Viewed: 444 |
| Points: 0 |
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| [Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note |
Ocybadistes walkeri, commonly known as the Greenish Grass-dart, Green Grass-dart, Southern Dart, or Yellow-banded Dart, is a type of butterfly known as a Skipper found in eastern and southern Australia, with one subspecies found in the Northern Territory.
A skipper is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae (superfamily Hesperioidea), named after their quick, darting flight habits. There are more than 3500 recognized species of skippers and they occur worldwide,but with the greatest diversity occurring in the tropical regions of Central and South America.
Skippers differ in several important ways from the remaining butterflies, which are classified in the superfamily Papilionoidea and the neotropical superfamily Hedyloidea. Collectively, these three groups of butterflies share several characteristics especially in the egg, larval and pupal stage (Ackery et al. 1999). However, skippers have the antennae clubs hooked backward like a crochet hook, whilst butterflies have club-like tips to their antennae and hedylids have feathered or pectinate antennae giving them an even more moth-like appearance than skippers. Skippers also have generally stockier bodies than the other two groups, with stronger wing muscles. Hesperioidea is very likely the sister group of Papilionoidea, and together with Hedyloidea constitute a natural group or clade.
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![Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor [C: 104 W: 39 N: 7]](http://i1.treknature.com/misc/g-s-n.gif)
(36) - [2009-01-28 17:19]
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hello Atanu
Something that I have not noticed before, so it is a good subject for me to see this post. Looks like a small size but you have captured it well here.
tfs, bill
