chequered skipper

chequered skipper

English

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.

Translations

butterfly

Hungarian: kockás busalepke

Russian: толстоголо́вка палемо́н f (tolstogolóvka palemón)