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Long-tailed skipper

The long-tailed skipper is a spread-winged skipper butterfly found throughout tropical and subtropical South America, south to Argentina and north into the eastern United States and southern Ontario. It cannot live in areas with prolonged frost. It is a showy butterfly, with wings of light brown tinted with iridescent blue, and two long tails extending from the hindwings. The robust body is light blue dorsally. It has a large head, prominent eyes, and a wingspan between 4.5 and 6 centimeters.

Life cycle
It lays white or yellow eggs, singly or in small clusters, which hatch into a caterpillar with a yellowish body and large, dark head. After two to three weeks, the caterpillar forms a pupa. Its pupa is contained in a rolled leaf and covered in fine bluish hairs. The pupa stage may last from one to three weeks, after which the adult emerges. == Sub-species ==
Sub-species
U. p. domingo flies in the Bahamas and throughout the West Indies, but it is only weakly differentiated from the nominate form, chiefly by its reduced white markings. Urbanus proteus.jpg|Pupa Urbanus proteus4.jpg|Caterpillar LongTailedSkipper.jpg| Common long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus domingo) female.jpg|U. p. domingo, Jamaica Long-tailed skipper (Urbanus proteus domingo) underside.JPG|U. p. domingo, Grand Cayman == References ==
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