chequered skipper

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Chequered Skipper

Noun

chequered skipper (plural chequered skippers)

  1. A brown and orange chequered butterfly, Carterocephalus palaemon, of the family Hesperiidae
    • 2018, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian, 7 April:
      This summer the chequered skipper, which became extinct in England in 1977, is being returned to the forest of Rockingham in Northamptonshire via specimens from Belgium.

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