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title: "Woodland Skipper"
description: "Ochlodes sylvanoides — Insekten & Spinnen. Ochlodes sylvanoides, the woodland skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/de/animal/woodland-skipper
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Woodland Skipper

> Ochlodes sylvanoides — Insekten & Spinnen. Ochlodes sylvanoides, the woodland skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.

- Scientific name: *Ochlodes sylvanoides*
- Category: `insects` (Insekten & Spinnen)
- Habitats: `forest` (Wald)
- iNaturalist observations: 29658
- Wikidata: [Q7076345](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7076345)
- iNaturalist taxon: [59194](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/59194)

## Names

- en: Woodland Skipper
- fr: Hespérie sylvestre

## Countries with the most observations

US (16096), CA (9598), MX (16)

## Summary

Ochlodes sylvanoides, the woodland skipper, is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is found in North America from British Columbia south to southern California, east to Montana, Colorado and Arizona.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlodes_sylvanoides

## Photo

![Woodland Skipper](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/woodland-skipper/medium.jpg)

Photo: Geoffrey Carter · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129611497

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/woodland-skipper?lang=de` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).