Phocides pigmalion, the mangrove skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in the United States from coast to coast in peninsular Florida and the Florida Keys, south through the West Indies and Mexico to Argentina. Strays may be found up to coastal South Carolina.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Phocides |
| Species: | P. pigmalion
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| Phocides pigmalion (Cramer, [1779])
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The wingspan is 48–70 mm. Adults are on the wing from November to August in southern Florida.
The larvae feed on Rhizophora mangle species. Adults feed on nectar of various plants, including mangrove, shepherd's needle, citrus, and bougainvillaea flowers.
Subspecies
edit- Phocides pigmalion pigmalion (Surinam, Colombia, Peru, Brazil)
- Phocides pigmalion bicolora (Haiti)
- Phocides pigmalion batabano (Cuba, tropical America)
- Phocides pigmalion okeechobee (Florida)
- Pocides pigmalion hewitsonius (Brazil (Amazonas), Peru, Bolivia)
- Phocides pigmalion batabanoides (Bahamas)
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