Long-Tailed Skipper

Urbanus proteus

"A number of skippers with long hind wing tails occur in tropical America, and several range northward at least occasionally to Texas' Rio Grande Valley. Urbanus proteus, the long-tailed skipper, is the most abundant and widely distributed of these species in the United States. Dark brown above with light spots on the forewing, it is paler below with darker hindwing bands ... An uncommon but regular visitor to the Houston area."

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Photo taken with a Nikon D80 using a Nikon 200mm, f/4 micro, manual focus lens.

September 7, 2007.