White-Striped Longtail Skipper
Chioides albofasciatus
Jeffrey Glassberg (147) writes,
"Look for that white stripe going straight across the middle
of the HW below. Note the very long (so long that unlike
other longtails' tails they dangle as the butterfly flies)
and the black upside-down triangle in the FW subapex ... R[are]-U[ncommon]
immigrant to Brazoria Co., TX."
Here is the White-Striped
Longtail Skipper from the Butterflies and Moths of North America
webpage.
Photo taken with a Nikon D80 using
a Nikon 200mm, f/4 micro, manual focus lens.
October 19, 2007.