Funereal duskywing
The funereal duskywing is a dark skipper butterfly with black and brown wings. Its back wings have a pretty white fringe along the edge. Skippers are small, fast butterflies with thick bodies that zip from flower to flower.
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Fun facts
Its caterpillar is green with a black head, yellow hairs and yellow markings.
It looks almost the same as its cousin the mournful duskywing, but its front wings are narrower.
Grown-up butterflies can be seen from February to October.
Most asked questions about Funereal duskywing
?What does the funereal duskywing eat?
The butterflies drink flower nectar, and the caterpillars eat alfalfa and similar plants.
?Where does the funereal duskywing live?
From the southern United States all the way down to Argentina and Chile.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Erynnis funeralis
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Hesperiidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Hesperiidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Erynnis funeralis (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Walter Siegmund (talk). CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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