Essex Skipper

Thymelicus lineola Ochsenheimer 1808

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Thymelicus lineola (Essex Skipper) is a species of butterflies in the family skipper butterflies. They visit flowers of Narrow-Leaf Fireweed, blueweed, Red Clover, and common milkweed.

EOL has data for 12 attributes, including:

Body symmetry
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/body_symmetry
- Definition: overall repetitive or reflective pattern in the body of one individual of this taxon. eg: bilateral symmetry, rotational symmetry, radial symmetry
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bilaterally symmetric
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001324
- Definition: being symmetric about a plane running from frontal end to caudal end (head to tail), and having nearly identical right and left halves
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preyed upon by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002458
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Pisaurina mira (Walckenaer 1837) (Nursery Web Spider)
cellularity
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001992
- Definition: An organismal quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting cells. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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multicellular
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/PATO_0001993
- Definition: A cellularity quality inhering in a bearer by virtue of the bearers consisting of more than one cell. [ PATOC:GVG ]
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developmental mode
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/DevelopmentalMode
- Definition: Broad recognized categories describing development, the process by which organisms grow and mature
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holometabolous
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/holometabolous
- Definition: Development of insects with complete metamorphosis which involves a pupal stage.
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eats
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002470
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Medicago falcata L. (Sickle Medick)
geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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habitat
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002303
- Definition: x has habitat y if: x is an organism, y is a habitat, and y can sustain and allow the growth of a population of x
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meadow
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000108
- Definition: A habitat of rolling or flat terrain where grasses predominate. Typically, what is called a meadow has more biodiversity than a grassland as the former contains not only grasses but a significant variety of annual, biennial and perennial plants.
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overwintering life stage
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/OverwinteringStage
- Definition: number of generations or broods of an organism per year
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egg stage
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/eggStage
- Definition: The first post-fertilization life stage of many organisms. The developing organism is enclosed by a membrane and possibly a hard shell and is not yet motile. Followed by hatching and either larval or other juvenile life stages.
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visits
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002618
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Dalea purpurea Vent. (purple prairie clover)
visits flowers of
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002622
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Asclepias syriaca L. (common milkweed)
visual system
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/UBERON_0002104
- Definition: The sensory system subserving the sense of vision.
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apposition eyes
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/IDOMAL_0002229
- Definition: A compound eye with no separation between the crystalline-cone layer and the retinula, each rhabdom receiving light only from its own corneal lens.
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voltinism
- URI: https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q946680
- Definition: number of generations or broods of an organism per year
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univoltine
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/univoltine
- Definition: completing one generation per year
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Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of essex skipper. View this species on GBIF

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essex skipper includes 2 children: