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Adults. Large-headed. Antennae inserted fully one half the width of the head apart. The antennal clubs not hooked at their tips.
Hindwings. Hindwings with the outer margins not scalloped.
Wing venation. Hindwings without a praecostal spur.
Eggs, larvae, pupae. The larvae exposed feeders.
British representation. H. phyleus (Fiery Skipper).
Status in Britain. Adventive (a North American and Caribbean species, supposedly once found in N. Devon around 1820).
Distribution. Southwest England.
Classification. Superfamily Hesperoidea. Hesperiidae.
Illustrations. • Hylephila phileus (Fiery Skipper, adventive): Stephens (1828), as Pamphilus bucephalus. Hylephila phileus (Fiery Skipper, adventive), a Caribbean and North American species. Upperside (1) and underside of male. From Stephens (1828, as Pamphila bucephalus).
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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., and Dallwitz, M.J. 2008 onwards. Insects of Britain and Ireland: butterflies. Version: 27th July 2019. delta-intkey.com’.
