While doing the Center Point NABA Count that includes our ranch, I came across a skipper I could not identify in the field, but took several pictures before it disappeared. After submitting it to the local Lepidopterist Society contact, I got an immediate reply that my bug was an Atrytone arogos iowa (Arogos Skipper). This skipper is on the Texas Watch list of only 5 butterfly species and becomes very rare in all of it's range.
This was a new Kerr County record and the second county record for our ranch, the first being a Red Rim seen on 11/13/2007.
this also brings our ranch list up to 71 species.
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