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Problema byssus
Male
Female
Conservation status
Apparently Secure  (NatureServe)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Hesperiidae
Genus:	Problema
Species:	P. byssus
Binomial name
Problema byssus (Edwards, 1880)
Synonyms
Pamphila byssus Edwards, 1880 Limochroes byssus

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.

The wingspan is 37–46 mm.

The larvae feed on Tripsacum dactyloides.

Subspecies

• Problema byssus byssus
• Problema byssus kumskaka (Scudder, 1887)

References

1. "NatureServe Explorer 2.0 Problema byssus Byssus Skipper". explorer.natureserve.org. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
2. Problema, Site of Markku Savela
3. Butterflies and Moths of North America collecting and sharing data about Lepidoptera

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• NatureServe apparently secure species
• Butterflies described in 1880
• Hesperiini
• Butterflies of North America
• Lepidoptera of the United States
• Taxa named by William Henry Edwards
• Hesperiini stubs