Problema byssus, the byssus skipper or bunchgrass skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found along the Atlantic coastal plain of North America, from North Carolina south to Florida and the Gulf States and from northern Indiana west to Iowa and south to Missouri and Kansas.[3]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Hesperiidae |
| Genus: | Problema |
| Species: | P. byssus
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The wingspan is 37–46 mm.
The larvae feed on Tripsacum dactyloides.
Subspecies
edit- Problema byssus byssus
- Problema byssus kumskaka (Scudder, 1887)
References
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Wikispecies has information related to Problema byssus.
- ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Problema byssus Byssus Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Problema, Site of Markku Savela
- ^ Butterflies and Moths of North America collecting and sharing data about Lepidoptera