Endangered
Atrytone arogos
Atrytone arogos
Atrytone arogos is a moth or butterfly in the family Hesperiidae (order Lepidoptera), recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
The adult Atrytone argos has vibrant yellow wings with a dark blackish-brown boarder. The underside of the Atrytone argos' wings is a paler yellow color than the top of the wings.
Its wingspan has been measured at 2.9-3.7 cm.
Range and habitat
The Atrytone arogo is found in the Eastern and Midwestern United States, often stationed a few hundred kilometers away from the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico. It generally resides in isolated colonies in peninsular Florida, the Gulf Coast, south-east North Dakota, southern Texas and the Colorado Front Range. Strays are found up from New Jersey to northern Arkansas.
Some measures that can be put in place to save the species include developing a plan to preserve existing populations and performing studies and experiments aimed at discovering more about the species in order to save the butterfly.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet
The larvae feed on Andropogon gerardi, Panicum, Calamovilfa brevipilis and other grasses. Adults feed on the nectar from flowers of purple vetch, Canada thistle, dogbane, stiff coreopsis, purple coneflower, green milkweed and ox-eye daisy.
In crisis
As it is both endangered and lacking consistent research, there is little known about the Atrytone arogos. This is one of the major contributors to the Atrytone argos status as an endangered species, because it is not expected to recover from its endangered state and will likely become extinct. The endangered status of this species is also primarily due to the fact that prairies are being rapidly destroyed.
This, combined with the Atrytone argos' low ability to adapt, has resulted in a rapid decline in the Atrytone argos population. Due to these changes, along with natural disasters, such as wildfires and tornadoes, the Atrytone arogos is predicted to become extinct in the near future unless a management plan is put into action.
Named moths and butterflies with a high threat category are often known from a small range and a thin series. Host-plant loss leaves little to recount.
Atrytone arogos is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Atrytone arogos, Wikidata item Q4817726. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
